Solana is a high-performance blockchain with 400ms blocks and a flexible runtime that allows computation to scale with validator hardware. On current iterations of the Solana Testnet, a network of 200 physically distinct nodes supports a sustained throughput of more than 50,000 transactions per second when running with GPUs. We believe it to be the most performant blockchain in the world.

Facebook’s Libra project is notable for a number of reasons that have been already discussed by the blockchain community in some depth: It’s a blockbuster project built by some of the brightest minds in technology, backed by some of the largest businesses in the world, and will likely be a major boon for adoption of blockchain technology. But for the Solana team in particular, we noted that Libra’s bespoke Move smart contract language separates shared data from the smart contract code that would modify it.

We found this factor particularly interesting because the Solana team made the same design decision in our runtime — Sealevel. We recognized immediately that Move is a smart contracts language that could not only scale, but share compatibility with Solana. This suggested to us that Move code could be utilized on Solana, and take further advantage of the highly optimized environment of the Solana network.

Just two weeks later, Solana co-founder Stephen Akridge posted that he was able to execute Libra’s peer-to-peer payment transactions on Solana: