Solana confirms outage on mainnet, engineers are investigating
Quick Take: Solana has confirmed an outage on its mainnet, with engineers across the ecosystem currently investigating. This is the first major outage for a year and follows a series of such incidents during 2022.
“Engineers from across the ecosystem are investigating an outage on mainnet-beta,” Solana stated in an incident report . The cause is not yet known.
“Solana mainnet-beta is experiencing a performance degradation, block progression is currently halted, core engineers and validators are actively investigating,” blockchain software company and Solana validator Laine posted on X.
This latest outage is the first since February 2023, according to its status page . Though still technically in beta, Solana previously suffered a series of outages in 2022 due to node issues. In September 2021, it went offline for almost 18 hours.
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