

The Solana community shouldn’t be having an excellent yr, having suffered full or partial outages no less than seven separate occasions over the previous 12 months.
A bug has knocked the Solana blockchain offline once more as block manufacturing halted at 16:55 UTC on June 1. This newest outage lasted round 4 and a half hours as validator operators managed to restart the mainnet at round 21:00 UTC, in accordance with the incident report.
Validator operators efficiently accomplished a cluster restart of Mainnet Beta at 9:00 PM UTC, following a roughly 4 and a half hour outage after the community failed to achieve consensus. Network operators an dapps will proceed to revive shopper companies over the following a number of hours.
— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) June 1, 2022
Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko defined what occurred in a tweet:
“Durable nonce instruction caused part of the network to consider the block is invalid, no consensus could be formed.”
‘Durable transaction nonce’ refers to a mechanism addressing the standard quick lifetime of a transaction block hash in accordance with the official Solana documentation. A bug within the function precipitated nodes to generate completely different outputs leading to consensus failure, which in the end precipitated the most recent interval of downtime.
The community was restarted with this function disabled, and Yakovenko added that fixes for the bug “will be out ASAP.”
Naturally, there was a good quantity of backlash from the group with feedback like this filling up its feed:
“Get it together Solana. We should be past this already. I’m big believer but I’m even doubting at this point.”
CNBC crypto dealer and Onchain Capital CEO Ran Neuner merely quipped:
BREAKING: SOLANA.
— Ran NeuNer (@cryptomanran) June 1, 2022
SOL costs have taken an enormous hit tanking nearly 14% over the previous 12 hours or so in a fall under $40, in accordance with CoinGecko. The community native token has now slumped 85% from its November 2021 all-time excessive of $260, and it’s poised to slide out of the highest ten by market ca.

Solana, which has typically been dubbed an “Ethereum killer,” has been totally or partially offline no less than seven occasions since September 2021, when it suffered denial of service attack-related outages twice in the identical month, in accordance with the community uptime tracker.
The blockchain was plagued with issues in January when it suffered service disruptions and degraded efficiency for 9 days out of the 31 within the month. Duplicate transactions had been blamed for the second outage in January. In late April and early May, Solana was down once more for nearly 8 hours attributable to NFT minting bots overwhelming the community.
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Additionally, Solana’s blockchain clock is gradual and operating half-hour behind real-world time. The standing web page notes “On-chain time continues to run behind that of wall clocks, attributable to longer-than-normal block occasions.”