Solana network down: Validators act to restore service

The Solana network experienced a major outage on Feb. 6 at 10:22 UTC, and engineers from across the ecosystem are investigating the problem on the mainnet beta.

Update Feb. 6, 11:55 UTC: Solana validators started preparing for a restart over one hour after Solana’s first major outage of 2024. Validators are producing the snapshots for slot 246464040  and will restart the Mainnet-Beta cluster using version 1.17.20; jito-solana release is also available. 

The Solana mainnet is experiencing downtime in block production, and block progression is currently halted, with core engineers and validators actively investigating. The Solana blockchain explorer confirmed the downtime by flashing a “major outage” on the mainnet.

Users on social media started to notice that the Solana blockchain hadn’t produced a block in over 25 minutes, which is considerably longer than its usual block production time of 400 milliseconds.

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Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-network-outage-block-production-halted