The Solana network is not having a good year, as it has suffered total or partial outages at least seven times in the last 12 months.
A bug has once again taken the Solana blockchain out of service, as block production stopped at 16:55 UTC on June 1. This last drop It lasted about four and a half hours, as the validating operators managed to restart the main network around 21:00 UTC, according to the incident report.
Validator operators successfully completed a cluster restart of Mainnet Beta at 9:00 PM UTC, following a roughly 4 and a half hour outage after the network failed to reach consensus. Network operators an dapps will continue to restore client services over the next several hours.
— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) June 1, 2022
Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko explained what happened in a Tweet:
“The durable nonce instruction caused part of the network to consider the block invalid, a consensus could not be formed.”
‘Durable transaction nonce’ refers to a mechanism that addresses the typical short lifetime of a transaction block hash, according to official Solana documentation. A bug in this function caused the nodes to generate different outputs, causing the consensus to fail, which ultimately caused the latest downtime.
The network was restarted with this feature disabledand Yakovenko added that fixes for the bug “will be out as soon as possible.”
Naturally, there was a fair amount of reaction from the community with comments like this that fill your feed:
“Get your act together, Solana. We should be over this by now. I’m a big believer, but I’m second-guessing at this point.”
CNBC crypto trader and CEO of Onchain Capital Ran Neuner simply joked:
BREAKING: SOLANA.
— Ran NeuNer (@cryptomanran) June 1, 2022
SOL prices have taken a massive hit sinking almost 14% in the last 12 hours or so on a drop below $40, according to CoinGecko. The network’s native token has plunged 85% from its November 2021 all-time high of $260 and is poised to break out of the top ten by market cap.
Solana, who has often been dubbed an “Ethereum killer”, has been fully or partially offline at least seven times since September 2021when he suffered falls related to denial-of-service attacks twice in the same month, according to network uptime tracker.
The blockchain was plagued with problems in January, when it suffered service outages and degraded performance for nine days out of 31 in the month. The second fall in January was due to the duplication of transactions. In late April and early May, Solana was down again for almost 8 hours due to NFT minting bots saturating the network.
Also, Solana’s blockchain clock is slow and lags 30 minutes behind real-world time. The status page notes that “chain time is still running behind wall clocks, due to longer-than-normal block times.”
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