{"id":49451,"date":"2021-09-14T18:15:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49451"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:43:15","slug":"on-solana-on-chain-activity-stalls-after-a-technical-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/on-solana-on-chain-activity-stalls-after-a-technical-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"On Solana, on-chain activity stalls after a technical outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A technical fault hit the Solana mainnet-beta; blockchain explorers show blocks have not been produced for more than two hours.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/oRgJCPd4CiBmipP5q_lI__pNB69SA6etHCD1vgynl4Y7XYCxJCcxHgitTz8TEI5riPspI87fJnSceps23obgWVJkGp4OtY7wwPeDKK6PpgTLl5jR0NV_lMgmaq8DX2DfejOzo80n=s0\" alt=\"On Solana, on-chain activity stalls after a technical outage\"\/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/solscan.io\/txs\">Solscan<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Around 16:40 (MSK), the Solana Foundation confirmed the issues on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe Solana mainnet-beta is intermittently unstable. This began about 45 minutes ago, and engineers are investigating the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Solana mainnet-beta is experiencing intermittent instability. This began approximately 45 minutes ago, and engineers are investigating the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SolanaStatus\/status\/1437757547235131396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko wrote on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHey, @solana validators! jump into https:\/\/t.co\/q4DvhuuFeh its beta time\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/solana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@solana<\/a> validators! jump into <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q4DvhuuFeh\">https:\/\/t.co\/q4DvhuuFeh<\/a> its beta time<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anatoly Yakovenko (@aeyakovenko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aeyakovenko\/status\/1437777596549410822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The outage was confirmed by the Solana-based wallet service Phantom:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe network appears to be experiencing intermittent instability. Phantom and other apps cannot connect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the latest blocks, a significant share of transactions remained unconfirmed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/yygD3CdJ9xp-89jD3bwbEHxBXOb1nREYGjwDBJFTCabj1Fl1Va6_Dx-Qs99KGfc4xjUadkZXylbnvnmksRtBcOeKeloA45LFjsEFMxWx58IHY79CHCIBKd5fyEzIAIOlqG0FiSvm=s0\" alt=\"On Solana, on-chain activity stalls after a technical outage\"\/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/solanabeach.io\/block\/96538483\">Solana Beach<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Developers said resource exhaustion was caused by a flood of spam transactions. They added that validators are preparing for a possible restart.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Block analyst Larry Cermak, the overload was driven by a surge of users due to an upcoming IDO <span data-descr=\"Initial DEX Offering, a token offering on a decentralized exchange\" class=\"old_tooltip\"> IDO<\/span> scheduled for 21:00 MSK.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The reason I see floating around is that there was a highly anticipated IDO scheduled at 12pm UTC and too much demand caused an outage. Not sure about the technical details though<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Larry Cermak (@lawmaster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lawmaster\/status\/1437777413283487747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2021<\/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>\u201cLooks like a similar resource exhaustion as to a week ago. Which is a forwarder queue flood. 2\/3 of those fixes were just tagged in 1.6.23 release. Just needed a few days to soak them before release \ud83d\ude2d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anatoly Yakovenko (@aeyakovenko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aeyakovenko\/status\/1437784552324358155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in March 2021, a multi-hour outage <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/stellar-network-suffers-outage\">occurred in the Stellar<\/a> network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technical fault hit the Solana mainnet-beta; blockchain explorers show blocks have not been produced for more than two hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1301,1159],"class_list":["post-49451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities","tag-solana-sol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49451","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=49451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49453,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49451\/revisions\/49453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}