Reliably unreliable: Solana price dives after latest network outage

The Solana community just isn’t having a great 12 months, having suffered full or partial outages at the least 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 Wednesday. This newest outage lasted round 4 and a half hours as validator operators managed to restart the mainnet at round 21:00 UTC, based on 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. Community operators an dapps will proceed to revive shopper providers over the subsequent a number of hours.

— Solana Standing (@SolanaStatus) June 1, 2022

Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko defined what occurred in a tweet:

“Sturdy nonce instruction induced a part of the community to contemplate the block is invalid, no consensus could possibly be fashioned.”

“Sturdy transaction nonce” refers to a mechanism addressing the standard brief lifetime of a transaction block hash based on the official Solana documentation. A bug within the function induced nodes to generate totally different outputs leading to consensus failure, which finally induced the newest interval of downtime.

The community was restarted with this function disabled, and Yakovenko added that fixes for the bug “will probably be out ASAP.”

Naturally, there was a good quantity of backlash from the group with comments like this filling up its feed:

“Get it collectively Solana. We needs to be previous this already. I’m massive believer however I’m even doubting at this level.”

CNBC crypto dealer and Onchain Capital CEO Ran Neuner merely quipped:

BREAKING: SOLANA.

— Ran NeuNer (@cryptomanran) June 1, 2022

SOL costs have taken a large hit, tanking virtually 14% over the previous 12 hours or so in a fall beneath $40, based on CoinGecko. The community’s 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 10 by market capitalization.

Solana, which has usually been dubbed an “Ethereum killer,” has been absolutely or partially offline at the least seven occasions since September 2021, when it suffered denial of service attack-related outages twice in the identical month, based on 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 Might, Solana was down once more for nearly eight hours on account of nonfungible token minting bots overwhelming the community.

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Moreover, Solana’s blockchain clock is sluggish and operating half-hour behind real-world time. The standing web page notes, “On-chain time continues to run behind that of wall clocks, on account of longer-than-normal block occasions.”