Solana network restarts after outage that lasted five hours | Headlines | News | CoinMarketCap
02/06/2024 22:52
The Layer 1 network Solana has restarted after going dark around five hours earlier. "Block production on Solana mainnet beta resumed at 14:57 …
Published on February 06, 2024 15:31 GMT+00:00edited on February 06, 2024 15:34 GMT+00:00
The Layer 1 network Solana has restarted after going dark around five hours earlier.
"Block production on Solana mainnet beta resumed at 14:57 UTC (9:47 a.m. ET), following a successful upgrade to v1.17.20 and a restart of the cluster by validator operators. Engineers will continue to monitor performance as network operations are restored," the network wrote in an incident report.
"The outage began at approximately 09:53 UTC, lasting 5 hours. Core contributors are working on a root cause report, which will be made available once complete," the report continued.
Matthew Sigel, Head of digital assets research at VanEck, wrote on X that the "Berkley Packet Filter” mechanism to deploy upgrade and execute programs on Solana seemed to be responsible for the failure.
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