$98,126.00
5.38%$3,432.70
7.41%$2.29
10.51%$674.70
6.54%$192.20
6.09%$0.335051
19.76%$1.00
-0.23%$0.949404
19.88%$3,430.59
7.67%$0.25002
7.13%$40.34
15.54%$23.64
14.06%$4,084.88
9.95%$5.46
10.94%$4.73
29.28%$0.00002297
18.65%$97,924.00
5.74%$0.374237
13.49%$7.40
17.53%$33.02
42.16%$0.266748
9.83%$3,433.66
7.84%$467.37
16.05%$9.28
0.91%$13.80
19.27%$0.00001867
23.43%$103.38
14.13%$3,624.07
7.57%$5.33
12.72%$4.28
9.62%$0.999709
0.18%$10.50
1.04%$1.00
-0.05%$10.77
16.50%$318.90
13.23%$0.167739
13.65%$0.500178
16.16%$27.17
11.61%$1.21
15.25%$7.62
20.25%$0.04818218
20.47%$3.95
12.96%$486.15
18.00%$192.53
10.95%$24.53
0.29%$1.35
14.99%$1.16
29.41%$0.798304
13.81%$5.21
13.26%$0.124878
9.70%$1.06
19.27%$0.352937
17.56%$45.91
6.73%$7.00
14.71%$2.70
23.79%$1.76
9.29%$1.80
13.20%$1.88
11.69%$0.00003331
29.04%$1.45
13.73%$5.34
17.06%$2.27
26.39%$1.00
37.39%$22.20
15.16%$2.13
18.64%$0.221075
16.73%$3,430.05
7.32%$98,106.00
5.69%$0.03054617
29.01%$0.451956
16.92%$2.34
15.04%$5.33
14.49%$3,544.12
8.38%$3,844.75
8.15%$1.00
-0.85%$0.00017819
18.32%$0.03553393
19.35%$117.32
17.92%$13.18
12.38%$0.03817864
25.17%$3,604.15
6.99%$1.78
21.18%$0.02796993
9.57%$18.87
9.92%$98,146.00
5.21%$0.02856598
25.40%$1,674.13
8.35%$0.592099
21.04%$3.33
0.25%$0.387292
15.23%$1.001
-0.02%$1.38
10.24%$1.35
20.98%$97,897.00
5.52%$0.233371
17.65%$11.30
8.47%$0.136679
19.12%$4.60
16.35%$0.85303
16.65%$3,528.17
7.74%$7.06
14.17%$196.27
6.32%$36.77
12.02%$1.65
21.85%$0.876451
13.09%$0.078457
21.18%$0.750867
15.58%$0.504111
13.10%$17.18
13.49%$0.312455
17.87%$55.78
12.22%$0.972308
22.74%$1.55
14.81%$0.860462
19.41%$0.00000111
10.77%$1.15
11.97%$238.56
6.50%$14.71
12.20%$6.56
20.98%$36.41
18.84%$0.499832
15.48%$0.499847
17.02%$97,091.00
4.79%$1.22
16.20%$5.34
22.80%$97,637.00
4.81%$3,439.93
11.22%$55.11
24.97%$0.845785
-13.60%$4.02
7.77%$0.00000216
5.03%$3.08
12.63%$0.089833
16.53%$3.32
15.71%$0.732388
29.80%$0.28507
15.73%$0.167794
14.29%$0.80371
19.19%$3,435.64
7.62%$0.640808
15.39%$84.91
17.70%$0.999496
0.24%$204.38
7.15%$0.802621
44.07%$2.49
15.92%$1.97
13.96%$1.62
25.80%$3,433.86
7.49%$2.13
11.54%$0.00003618
14.34%$22.11
13.07%$0.00697903
20.36%$1.55
14.79%$268.15
13.01%$0.00817548
14.21%$0.334379
19.41%$0.779972
18.75%$0.186036
17.45%$0.00665879
14.02%$0.677401
11.86%$97,267.00
5.42%$0.664543
27.55%$5.86
16.29%$2,628.71
0.54%$0.997027
0.10%$3,605.03
6.30%$0.00
27.49%$0.00011431
22.00%$0.01172525
22.48%$2.54
19.01%$3,710.11
7.67%$0.00879996
20.69%$19.57
23.33%$0.00652834
17.04%$1.24
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13.10%$0.085836
14.89%$0.276243
13.80%$1.12
18.80%$3,426.49
7.75%$0.405866
15.79%$11.03
15.27%$1.35
26.97%$1.31
19.63%$0.53442
29.53%$0.077469
3.55%$14.50
27.14%$1.018
-0.39%$97,936.00
4.93%$1.001
0.04%$0.00000053
7.34%$2,627.22
0.59%$0.054094
35.89%$1.55
12.57%$97,309.00
5.32%$32.54
25.39%$0.01133711
19.83%$8.93
-11.07%$3,352.24
6.92%$4.97
13.82%$3,428.96
7.76%$1.002
-0.37%$0.455266
17.57%$0.00653043
32.09%$0.062645
14.57%$38.50
17.06%$0.067004
13.41%$0.00581645
20.17%$0.00254649
20.24%$0.00655984
16.53%$97,807.00
5.44%$3,587.62
7.31%$2.14
14.62%$3,688.57
7.62%$0.288576
63.15%$1.059
-1.71%$0.0010403
17.66%$0.02226302
20.57%$3.27
8.60%$26.93
58.33%$0.00000338
19.50%$0.073709
10.66%$0.234453
20.38%$5.26
6.75%$0.481773
14.92%$1.078
-0.60%$0.997823
0.80%$0.216873
15.31%$89.89
4.75%$2.53
19.16%$1.00
0.12%$0.00000018
11.91%$0.695034
17.41%$3,794.72
8.29%$0.03873086
9.95%$3.52
15.86%$0.143883
10.54%$0.906581
10.11%$2.99
6.51%$47.58
15.13%$0.03715124
16.81%$0.370885
69.72%$0.01102985
18.25%$0.757698
25.56%$1.002
-0.39%$0.367597
11.22%$0.364329
16.75%$0.03828633
16.31%
A misconfigured node caused the Solana network to stop processing transactions and go offline on Friday, the fourth major outage for the popular blockchain since January, when it had a string of partial outages for most of that month, according to data from Solana.
This outage comes one year after a nearly 18-hour outage last September. Meanwhile, the crushing crypto winter has sent SOL, the No. 9 coin by market cap, down 81% in 2022.
At 7:01 pm EST on Friday night, the Solana Status site, operated by the Solana Foundation, posted that the network was “experiencing degraded performance” and that Solana developers were working on diagnosing the issue. Shortly after, Solana posted that the network is “experiencing an outage and not processing transactions.”
The Solana network is experiencing an outage and not processing transactions. Developers across the ecosystem are working on diagnosing the issue and to restart the network. More information will be provided as it becomes available.
— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) October 1, 2022
“It appears a misconfigured node caused an unrecoverable partition in the network,” the Solana validator behind Stakewiz.com tweeted about the incident.
They translated further for Decrypt over Twitter DM: “A validator was running a duplicate validator instance. Meaning when it was their turn to produce a block, they produced one from each instance, for the same slot, so some validators saw the one block, some the others, then couldn't agree which one was correct.”
Stakewiz said the Solana codebase should have handled the issue, but for some unknown reason, it caused an unrecoverable partition or fork. They believe the misconfiguration was an accident, “probably a failed node failover setup.” Developers restarted the Solana mainnet network at the last confirmed slot, 153139220. At the time of publishing, the reboot was 49% completed, and Solana had been down for 2 hours and 45 minutes.
Solana Mainnet restart is underway, we need 80% of stake to restart.
Track it here: https://t.co/2tIgKBCAHO
— Laine ❤️ stakewiz.com (@laine_sa_) October 1, 2022
Solana Labs did not immediately respond to Decrypt's request for comment on this outage.
While Solana execs have quibbled in the past with varying tallies in crypto media of the total number of outages, founder Anatoly Yakovenko told Real Vision earlier this month that outages have been “our curse,” and pointed out that the Bitcoin blockchain has at times in its history had hours between two blocks.
One of a slew of smart-contract blockchains hyped as “Ethereum killers,” Solana is a popular blockchain for minting non-fungible tokens, NFTs, and decentralized applications. After Ethereum transitioned to proof of stake on September 15, Solana is now the number three proof-of-stake blockchain by market cap behind Ethereum and Cardano.
But if it’s going to continue to grow, and rival Ethereum, the network will need to stay up.
