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 said 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 staff, there have been a set of directions for mainnet beta validators. It stated,

“Mainnet Beta Validators: Please observe the restart instructions linked beneath, 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 12 months, the community remained inactive for over 10 hours because the blockchain nodes went offline as a result of extreme reminiscence use.

Earlier this 12 months in January, Binance famous that the SOL community skilled congestion. This had resulted in lowered throughput of the community to a number of 1000’s of transactions per second. The outage affected withdrawals on the trade 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 knowledge from crypto analytics platform Messari, Solana’s NFT gross sales quantity took a significant soar. This resulted in it changing into the second-largest protocol by the tip of the quarter, subsequent to Ethereum at first place.

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

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