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‘Ethereum Killer’ Solana Has Another Major Outage

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The popular blockchain has had a handful of outages and transaction stops this year, including a series of partial outages in January.

Fourth major outage this year

A misconfigured node caused the Solana network to stop processing transactions. As a result, it went offline on Friday. It was the fourth major outage for the popular blockchain since January, when it had a series of partial outages for most of that month.

This outage comes a year after a nearly 18-hour outage last September. Meanwhile, the crypto winter has plunged SOL by 81% in 2022.

Friday night at 7:01 p.m. EST, the Solana Status site, operated by the Solana Foundation, reported that the network was “experienced deteriorating performance” and that Solana developers were in the process of diagnosing the issue. Shortly after, Solana posted that the network was “experienced an outage and not processing transactions.”

What is the cause of the malfunction?

“It appears that a misconfigured node has caused an unrecoverable partition on the network”the Solana validator behind Statwiz.com tweeted about the incident.

Furthermore, Solana said the following about the outage:

A validator ran a duplicate validator instance. This means that when it was their turn to create a block, they made one of each instance, for the same slot, so some validators saw one block, others the others, and then couldn’t agree on the correct block .

Statwiz said that the Solana codebase should have solved the problem, but for some unknown reason caused an unrecoverable partition or fork. They believe the misconfiguration was an accident, “probably a failed failover configuration of the node.”

Developers rebooted the mainnet network to the last confirmed slot, 153139220. At the time of writing, the reboot was 49% complete.

What does Solana say about the outages?

Executives have discussed the varying numbers of total dropout in the past. However, founder Anatoly Yakovenko told Real Vision earlier this month that outages were “their bane”.

Solana, one of the many smart contract blockchains seen as the “Ethereum killer”, is a popular blockchain for minting 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 wants to continue to grow and match Ethereum, the network will have to stand.

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