The Solana blockchain experienced a significant outage earlier today, halting all block production on its mainnet-beta since 10:22 UTC, February 6th. The outage was first acknowledged through an official communication by the Solana team, stating that all hands were on deck to investigate the root cause of the stop-in block advancement. The Solana Blockchain Explorer confirmed the severity of the situation by marking it as a “major outage.”
The issue was, however, fixed to bring operations back to normal five hours later.
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The disruption did not go unnoticed, with social media platforms buzzing about the inability of the blockchain to generate a block after 25 minutes, a significant delay considering Solana’s touted block creation time of just 400 milliseconds.
In response to the crisis, Stakewiz, a noted Solana validator, revealed that developers are hastily working on a fix. There is a concerted effort to prepare a version that addresses the outage, with further details to be shared upon readiness. Meanwhile, validators are taking proactive steps by creating snapshots of their local ledger state, gearing up for a network restart.
The ripple effects of the outage have extended to cryptocurrency exchanges, with Upbit announcing a temporary halt on the trading of Solana-based tokens, including *SOL*, GMT, RAY, and ACS.
