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The proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain network Solana suffered another breach on September 30, and the network restart did not take effect until six hours later on October 1. Solana has suffered numerous network outages over the past year, and the blockchain’s most recent downtime caused the network’s native currency to fall 4% lower against the US dollar in the past 24 hours.
Solana’s network experienced another blackout after validators failed to process blocks due to a misconfigured node inside the system. On September 30, 2022, the Twitter account became Solana Status wrote:
The Solana network is experiencing power outages and is not processing transactions. Developers across the ecosystem are working to diagnose the issue and restart the network. More information will be provided as it becomes available.
Following the Solana Status update, a Solana spokesperson explained that the blockchain would be restarted. “Solana’s main network will be restarted on track 153139220, the last confirmed track,” the individual so. “It appears that a misconfigured node caused an unrecoverable partition in the network. Validators, please participate in finding consensus on the relevant data.”
Amidst the outage, Solana Status shared instructions on how validators could participate in the restart. “Mainnet Beta Validators: Follow Cluster Restart Instructions,” Solana Status stressed. Around 3:00 AM (ET), Solana Status announced that the cluster restart has been deployed. “Validator operators completed a cluster restart of Mainnet Beta at 07:00 UTC,” Solana Status wrote. The team added:
Network operators [and] dapps will continue to restore client services over the next few hours.
Solana drew a lot of criticism from the crypto community when the blackout occurred, as the blockchain approaches its tenth blackout since Solana’s inception. Cyber Capital founder Justin Bons credited the project with the latest outage. “[Solana] has gone down again,” the Cyber Capital founder tweeted. “This is the eighth time [Solana] has decreased in the past year. Blockchains should never have [downtime]yet [Solana] goes down almost every month. This is another consequence of poor design,” Bons added.
Another person asked about the misconfigured node issue. “Def not FUD…honest question…what good is a Nakamoto coefficient of 30 if 1 misconfigured node can stop everything?” the individual asked. Meanwhile, Solana supporters shrugged off the criticism, telling people that the blockchain network will continue to improve as long as the engineers persevere.
“Solana is going to be fine,” one person noted on Twitter. “So long [developers] continue to improve [blockchain]. That is what is important. Still bullish on [Solana] long term.
What do you think of Solana’s latest hiccup on September 30? Do you agree that Solana will be fine, or do you agree that it is a “consequence of poor design?” Let us know what you think about this topic in the comments section below.
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