Solana Blockchain Restarts After Another Shutdown In a Series of Outages

The Solana blockchain is back up and running following a shutdown of more than four hours, the latest in a series of outages of the network in less than a year. According to data from Solana Beach block explorer, Solana’s validators did not process new blocks for nearly four and half hours, causing a total shutdown of all of its applications. The official Twitter account of Solana Status also tweeted about the incident on Wednesday at 12:56 p.m. (ET). Block production on Solana Mainnet Beta has halted. Validator operators should prepare for a restart in mb-validators on Discord. https://t.co/gRJJRqEMPn — Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) June 1, 2022 To fix the latest outage, validators had to restart, following instructions linked from the same Twitter account, which later said the outage lasted four and a half hours. 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 Over the last year, Solana has suffered numerous outages and suffered from block congestion. Last September, the network was down for nearly 18 hours after being overwhelmed by transactions being sent to a DeFi protocol for a new token launch. More recently, on April 30, the network crashed after ...