Solana Network Halts Block Production, Here’s An Update On Restart

The Solana community halted block manufacturing but once more on Wednesday. That is the ninth such Solana halt that occurred on the blockchain community.

A Solana standing update shared on Twitter acknowledged that validator operators are being requested to organize for a restart. The tweet on Solana halt stated,

“Block manufacturing on Solana Mainnet Beta has halted. Validator operators ought to put together for a restart in mb-validators on Discord.”

‘Put together For A Restart’

In a subsequent replace shared by the group, there have been a set of directions for mainnet beta validators. It stated,

“Mainnet Beta Validators: Please observe the restart instructions linked under, and improve 1.9.x to 1.9.28 – If you’re on 1.10.x please improve to 1.10.23”

Ninth Time Outage

There have been a number of outages within the Solana community prior to now. In September final yr, the community remained inactive for over 10 hours because the blockchain nodes went offline attributable to extreme reminiscence use.

Earlier this yr in January, Binance famous that the SOL community skilled congestion. This had resulted in diminished throughput of the community to a number of hundreds of transactions per second. The outage affected withdrawals on the alternate through the Solana community and led to failed transactions.

Regardless of all of the troubles within the current previous, the community had fared pretty nicely with respect to the NFT market. As per current information from crypto analytics platform Messari, Solana’s NFT gross sales quantity took a significant leap. This resulted in it changing into the second-largest protocol by the top of the quarter, subsequent to Ethereum at first place.

The community outage led to a steep fall in Solana’s worth. As of writing, the coin is buying and selling at $40.59, down 11.24% within the final 24 hours, in line with CoinMarketCap. SOL’s present market cap stands at $13 billion and a rating of 9.

In the meantime, crypto analysts have been fast to query the community’s repeated outages. They even raised questions on the decentralised nature of the network. An analyst that goes by the identify Nick on Twitter requested, “The Solana (SOL) community has been globally halted. How can we name this decentralized?”

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