The emissions tracker is set to monitor the carbon footprint of the Solana blockchain while it becomes one of the first ones to do so.
Carbon emissions and tracking its footprints have gained traction in blockchain as the Solana Foundation took the initiative to track its blockchain’s carbon emissions. It has partnered with Trycarbonara and launched an emissions tracker to monitor real-time emissions of the Solana blockchain on a dashboard.
Trycarbonara is a carbon data platform, and it would use the Solana nodes to attach data directly on them for the most accurate data of its carbon footprints. The emissions tracker would keep changing readings according to the throughput of the individual validators and the validator network.
It would also change according to the emissions of the RPC nodes, emissions granularity, marginal emissions, the efficiency of the data center, and embodied emissions.
“The data set is detail-rich, open, and free to use, making it possible to scrutinize the sources of network emissions down to the validator level. This allows validators and ecosystem projects and teams to look at individual contributions to the network’s carbon footprint and explore mitigation strategies,” stated the Solana Foundation in a blog post.
Available on the Solana climate website, the list of parameters that the emissions tracker displays include average and marginal use of total carbon emissions, megawatt-hours, total node count, and others. It also includes emission comparison charts, comparing Solana’s carbon footprint with other individual interactions with the chain.
As carbon emissions and tracking gain worldwide cognizance, the crypto space could gradually adopt net zero strategies in the future. The emissions tracker is a step in the same direction.