Solana launches emissions dashboard to spur blockchain carbon footprint transparency
The Solana Foundation has launched a real-time carbon emissions tracker to monitor the Solana blockchain. The Solana Foundation, in collaboration with Data platform Try carbon ara, announced the launch of a real-time tracking dashboard to measure carbon emissions on the Solana block chain . 1/ Today, the Solana Foundation is leading the charge in the climate fight by making Solana one of the first blockchains to have its emissions measured in real time, thanks to a new data portal created with TryCarbonara. Learn more: https://t.co/k4QsZmtjHn pic.twitter.com/gqPwpKtv3u — Solana (@solana) April 21, 2023 According to a blog post from the foundation, this represents the first “major smart-contract blockchain” to measure carbon emissions in real-time. The organization hopes this will spur a trend towards carbon emissions transparency in the blockchain ecosystem: “The Solana Foundation hopes to set a new standard for measuring emissions in blockchain by publishing this data.” The n...