Solana core developer Cantelopepeel announced his departure and founded Unto Labs, with plans to develop a new Layer 1 blockchain

Cantelopepeel, the core developer of Solana, announced his departure and founded Unto Labs to develop the new Layer 1 blockchain. As the core engineer of the new Firedancer client, he led the team to demonstrate the performance of 1 million transactions per second and 1 billion computing units per second at Breakpoint 2024.
Unto Labs will adopt a new architecture, redesigning from virtual machines to consensus mechanisms, but will not create SVM chains. Cantelopepeel expects tens of millions of daily active wallet users in 2025, and the new project will aim to meet this demand.