Solana launches emissions dashboard to spur blockchain carbon footprint transparency
The Solana Foundation, in collaboration with data platform Trycarbonara, announced the launch of a real-time tracking dashboard to measure carbon emissions on the Solana blockchain.
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
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 new dashboard can be found on the Solana Climate website. Trackers there currently display the total node count, megawatt-hours, total carbon emissions average and marginal use, and numerous other indicators.
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The new dashboard also contains several emissions comparison charts where users can view side-by-side conversions depicting Solana usage versus numerous other emission-producing activities.
3/ The tracker also includes comparison charts that help put the carbon footprint of the @Solana blockchain and individual interactions with the chain in perspective. pic.twitter.com/sUJlM07YI2
Burning a gallon of gasoline, according to the chart, produces the equivalent of conducting 140,416.67 transactions on the Solana blockchain, whereas performing a Google search adds up to one and a quarter transactions.
The data used to power the Solana Foundation’s real-time carbon emissions dashboard is available open source and is
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