🚨 Solana Nearly Froze After Major Validator Outage
Solana came dangerously close to a full network freeze on Wednesday after a routing failure knocked nearly 29% of staked SOL offline.
🔴 Around 90 validators were affected
🔴 Nearly one-third of staked SOL went offline
🔴 The network came within roughly 20M SOL of the critical threshold
🔴 About 333 SOL in validator rewards were lost
Solana’s finality mechanism can stop if more than one-third of the network’s staked tokens go offline simultaneously.
The outage lasted around 33 minutes for many affected validators, while the underlying routing issue was resolved within roughly 10 minutes.
📌 Why it matters:
The incident highlights a key risk for highly distributed blockchain networks , concentration of infrastructure and validator operations can create a single point of failure.
If more than one-third of staked SOL goes offline at once, transactions may stop finalizing across the entire network.
#dyor #NFA✅
Solana came dangerously close to a full network freeze on Wednesday after a routing failure knocked nearly 29% of staked SOL offline.
🔴 Around 90 validators were affected
🔴 Nearly one-third of staked SOL went offline
🔴 The network came within roughly 20M SOL of the critical threshold
🔴 About 333 SOL in validator rewards were lost
Solana’s finality mechanism can stop if more than one-third of the network’s staked tokens go offline simultaneously.
The outage lasted around 33 minutes for many affected validators, while the underlying routing issue was resolved within roughly 10 minutes.
📌 Why it matters:
The incident highlights a key risk for highly distributed blockchain networks , concentration of infrastructure and validator operations can create a single point of failure.
If more than one-third of staked SOL goes offline at once, transactions may stop finalizing across the entire network.
#dyor #NFA✅