In the fast-paced world of blockchain, network stability can make or break a platform—especially for meme tokens that thrive on quick trades and viral launches. A recent tweet from Brennan Watt, VP of Core Engineering at Anza (the team behind Solana's core development), highlights just how far Solana has come in terms of uptime and resiliency.

The tweet points to a pivotal moment in late 2023 when the team gathered in San Francisco to shift gears: deprioritizing new features in favor of bolstering the network's resilience. As Watt puts it, "When the devs are focused on a problem, they move mountains." And the visuals back it up—a calendar-style heatmap showing Solana's monthly uptime from 2021 to mid-2025, with green squares representing 100% uptime and red ones indicating disruptions.

Look closely, and you'll see the arrow marking that SF meetup, after which the reds start fading away. By Q4 2024, right before the v2.0 release, they doubled down on IBRL—short for "Increase Bandwidth, Reduce Latency." This mantra, popularized within the Solana community (and even joked about by co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko in tweets), focuses on optimizing the network's core performance to handle massive transaction loads without buckling.

For context, Solana's early days were rocky. Between 2021 and 2023, the network faced over a dozen major outages, often due to congestion from spam transactions or consensus issues. For instance, a notable downtime in February 2024 lasted nearly five hours, caused by a bug in the Berkeley Packet Filter loader. These hiccups frustrated users and developers alike, especially in the meme token space where timing is everything—missing a pump because the network stalls could mean big losses.

But since that last major outage in early 2024, Solana has been on a tear. As of September 2025, it's clocked over 570 days without a significant disruption, according to official status trackers like Solana Status. The second image in the tweet, a graph of average slot times (the time it takes to produce a block), shows a steady decline, dipping below 400ms in recent months—a clear sign of those IBRL efforts paying off.

What does this mean for meme token enthusiasts? A more reliable Solana means smoother launches on platforms like Pump.fun, faster trades on DEXes like Raydium, and less risk of failed transactions during hype cycles. Meme coins like BONK or WIF, which exploded on Solana, owe part of their success to the chain's high throughput. With enhanced resiliency, we're likely to see even more innovation, from AI-integrated memes to cross-chain experiments.

Anza's approach underscores a key lesson in crypto: sometimes, slowing down on features to fix the fundamentals leads to exponential growth. As Watt notes, the results speak for themselves. If you're building or trading on Solana, this uptime streak is a green light to go all in.

Stay tuned to Meme Insider for more updates on how blockchain advancements like these are shaping the meme token landscape.