In brief
Solana was down for about four hours today after a bug blocked consensus.
Network validators disabled the feature to restart the network, fix due later.
Blockchain platform Solana was down this afternoon for over four hours due to a bug that stopped blockchain production. The official Solana Status page and Twitter account reported the issue just before 1 p.m. ET today, with validators bringing the network back online via a restart around 5 p.m.
According to information from Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and other developers on Twitter, the issue was due to a bug with the durable nonce feature of the blockchain. Yakovenko tweeted that the issue “caused part of the network to consider the block is invalid,” and that “no consensus could be formed” as a result.
Validators worked together to restart the Solana network with the durable nonce feature disabled, and Yakovenko added that the bug will be fixed in a future update. All told, the Solana Status page reports that...
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