{"id":10463,"date":"2024-02-06T14:26:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/solana-blockchain-experiences-outage\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:26:23","slug":"solana-blockchain-experiences-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/solana-blockchain-experiences-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana Blockchain Experiences Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 6 at 09:52:45 UTC (+3 MSK, +2 Kyiv), the Solana network ceased processing blocks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Solscan-Google-Chrome-1024x385.jpg\" alt=\"Solscan-Google-Chrome\" class=\"wp-image-225459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Solscan-Google-Chrome-1024x385.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Solscan-Google-Chrome-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Solscan-Google-Chrome-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Solscan-Google-Chrome.jpg 1241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/solscan.io\/blocks\">Solscan<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the time of writing, the blockchain has been down for about an hour.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cEcosystem engineers are investigating the Mainnet Beta outage,\u201d the team reported in an <a href=\"https:\/\/status.solana.com\/incidents\/n5kcgs8dl9pj\">incident report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Laine, a blockchain software developer and Solana validator, clarified that the outage was due to a \u201cperformance degradation\u201d of the main network.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Solana Mainnet-Beta is experiencing a performance degradatation, block progression is currently halted, core engineers &#038; validators are actively investigating.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laine \u2764\ufe0f stakewiz.com (@laine_sa_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laine_sa_\/status\/1754809775743738338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cValidators have started taking snapshots using the state of their local ledger to prepare for a restart. Developers are still preparing the release,\u201d the firm stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">February 6, 2024 | 15:34<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Laine announced the commencement of the network restart. Validators are updating the software to v1.17.20. Once 80% of the stake is reached, the cluster will resume block production from slot 246,464,041 (the halt occurred at 246,464,003). At the time of writing, progress is at 11%.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A cluster restart on v1.17.20 has begun, you can follow the progress here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2tIgKBUc6o\">https:\/\/t.co\/2tIgKBUc6o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once 80% of stake has restarted the cluster will resume block production from slot 246464041<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laine \u2764\ufe0f stakewiz.com (@laine_sa_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laine_sa_\/status\/1754838729301041659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">February 6, 2024 | 17:06<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Representatives from Laine reported the restoration of network functionality, with \u201cnew rooted blocks and finalized slots\u201d appearing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Solana network is back up, there was a brief fork resolution period after supermajority was achieved but we are now seeing new rooted blocks and finalized slots advancing<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laine \u2764\ufe0f stakewiz.com (@laine_sa_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laine_sa_\/status\/1754881952597909661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The SOL token reacted to the blockchain halt by dropping from around $96 to below $94. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/solana\">CoinGecko<\/a>, the asset depreciated by 4.5% over the day.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SOLUSD_2024-02-06_14-11-15-1024x619.png\" alt=\"SOLUSD_2024-02-06_14-11-15\" class=\"wp-image-225458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SOLUSD_2024-02-06_14-11-15-1024x619.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SOLUSD_2024-02-06_14-11-15-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SOLUSD_2024-02-06_14-11-15-768x464.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SOLUSD_2024-02-06_14-11-15.png 1327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hourly chart of SOL\/USD on Binance. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/SOLUSD\/?exchange=BINANCE\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In February 2023, Solana validators restarted the network twice due to an unknown error that caused a complete halt in economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2022, the blockchain experienced a failure due to a bug in processing \u201clong-term non-targeted transactions,\u201d which led to a consensus disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 6 at 09:52:45 UTC (+3 MSK, +2 Kyiv), the Solana network ceased processing blocks. Data: Solscan. At the time of writing, the blockchain has been down for about an hour. \u201cEcosystem engineers are investigating the Mainnet Beta outage,\u201d the team reported in an incident report. Laine, a blockchain software developer and Solana validator, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1159],"class_list":["post-10463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-solana-sol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"61","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}