Solana suffered a “major outage” on Tuesday, with the network System status page indicates.
“Solana mainnet beta is experiencing performance degradation and block progression is currently halted and core engineers and validators are actively investigating,” Solana validator Laine wrote on X It is stated in
Core engineers are identifying fixes and building new versions for validators to upgrade to (Network Validator @mtromp) Said At the X post.
In a follow-up post, Laine said the validator has started generating snapshots in preparation for the restart using the state of the local ledger, the latest data before the outage.
The new validator software release includes a patch that addresses the issue that caused the cluster to go down, a status handle run by Solana Foundation that maintains the network, Said. “Validator operators should prepare for network upgrades and reboots,” it added.
A validator is an entity that utilizes computing power to maintain the blockchain and process transactions. A snapshot refers to an exact copy of blockchain data at a specific point in time.
It appears that the block was last processed at 09:52 UTC. data From the Solana blockchain tracker show. At the time of writing, Solana’s SOL token had fallen more than 2% to $94 after this news broke.
The outage comes nearly a year after the Solana network went down for nearly two days in April 2023.
Updated (February 6, 10:46 UTC): Update SOL price and system status page.
Updated (February 6, 11:37 UTC): Updated with comments regarding network fixes and snapshot planning.
