- The bug was the cause of a Devnet outage seen in the previous week.
- SOL has risen 17% since the incident on the 6th of February.
The recent outage that halted transactions on the Solana [SOL] mainnet for five hours was due to a known bug identified by developers last week, Solana Labs admitted in an elaborate root cause report.
The bug was the cause of a Devnet outage seen previously. While developers issued a fix for one of the triggers of the bug, the fix for the other trigger was supposed to go into the version 1.18 cycle. The fix for the latter was eventually released as part of version 1.17.20.
Solana stated in the report that a “more complete fix” would be released in the future and align with the regular release cycle.
Solana’s goal: Speed + Stability
Solana, which prides itself on its lightning fast transaction speeds, theoretically up to 50,000–65,000 transactions per second (TPS), has often received brickbats over its lack of stability and network glitches.
In fact, co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko went to the extent of terming network outages as “Solana’s curse” in one of his older interviews.
Having said that, the recent disruption was the first in a year since the 20-hour network jam recorded in February 2023. In between these incidents, the Solana network maintained a 100% uptime, according to AMBCrypto’s examination of
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Author: Aniket Verma
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