Solana blockchain is down; no blocks since 10:22 UTC

cointelegraph2024-02-05 tarihinde yayınlandı2024-02-06 tarihinde güncellendi

Solana Mainnet-Beta is experiencing downtime in block production as block progression is currently halted, and core engineers and validators are actively investigating. The Solana Blockchain Explorer flashing a “major outage” on the mainnet.

*Solana blockchain outage warning. Source: Solana*

Users on social media started to notice that the Solana blockchain hasn’t produced a block in over 25 minutes, which is considerably long considering Solana has a block production time of 400 milliseconds.

Solana blockchain stops block production. Source: X

This is not the first time when Solana blockchain has faced a network outage or downtime in block production, the network has been plagued with multiple downtime

This is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.

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