Solana (SOL), one of the most popular blockchains in recent months, experienced an outage of approximately five hours the other day.
The network, which was disabled at around 12:53 yesterday, was put back into service at 17.57.
Solana developers found a solution within a few hours and began building a new version for validators to migrate to.
Solana’s cryptocurrency SOL was released during this process. below $93 Although it fell, it later started to rise again.
Due to the problem in mainnet-beta, block production on the network was interrupted for approximately five hours and transactions could not be processed.
The last time an outage like this occurred on the Solana network was in February 2023, and the network was disabled for several hours at that time.