Solana again on-line after one other outage. Here is what occurred

The problem gave the impression to be brought on by a misconfigured node, or a pc working Solana software program essential for the community to run, according to Stakewiz, a Solana validator operator.

This isn’t the blockchain’s first main outage or problem. This yr alone, Solana has handled a number of outages, degraded efficiency, and community instability. In September 2021, Solana went offline for nearly 18 hours.

Solana didn’t instantly reply to Fortune’s request for remark.

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The Solana Standing Twitter account acknowledged the newest problem at 8:45 p.m. ET on Friday, and at 3:04 a.m. ET on Saturday, famous that validator operators had “efficiently accomplished a cluster restart” of the Solana mainnet.

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Whereas “evaluation continues to be ongoing,” Stakewiz tweeted, “the offending validator gave the impression to be working a replica occasion, and each their situations produced a block.”

This prompted an “obscure code path the place validators had been unable to change again to the heaviest (principal) fork. Validators had been ‘caught’ on the incorrect fork and unable to get to the profitable one.”

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As outstanding crypto critic Molly White factors out in her weblog “Web3 goes simply nice,” “it’s a bit startling that, in a supposedly decentralized community, one single node can carry your complete community offline.”