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Solana’s Annual Carbon Footprint Equals 18062 Flights From London to New York

A new, real-time dashboard set up by the Solana Foundation purporting to show how relatively little carbon the smart contracts platform is emitting – at a time when the energy usage of Bitcoin and other blockchains is under scrutiny.

Updated May 4, 2023, 5:17 p.m. Published Apr 21, 2023, 4:00 p.m.
A trash installation at a Solana hacker house. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
A trash installation at a Solana hacker house. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)