Solana Successfully Restarted After Seven Hours Of Outage
Solana, a proof-of-stake blockchain, successfully completed a cluster restart at about 11 p.m. ET on Saturday after approximately seven-hour outage after the network failed to reach consensus.
Validator operators successfully completed a cluster restart of Mainnet Beta at 3:00 AM UTC, following a roughly 7 hour outage after the network failed to reach consensus.
Network operators an dapps will continue to restore client services over the next several hours. https://t.co/ezqEYQYKWl
“Solana Mainnet Beta lost consensus after an enormous amount of inbound transactions (4m per second) flooded the network, surpassing 100gbps.”
Late Saturday night, one of the validators coordinating through the Solana discord sent a Google doc of instructions that enabled the operators to restart the cluster at slot 131973970.
As per the tweet, Solana’s Engineers were still investigating why the network was unable to recover, and validator operators prepare for a restart.
Last September, Solana went offline after it was overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of transactions per second and remained down nearly 20 hours.
At the time of writing, SOL trades at $90.34, up 5.5% on the daily chart.
