On Tuesday, the Solana blockchain experienced a major outage that stopped the network’s mainnet operations for approximately 5 hours. The outage raised concerns about the blockchain’s stability and security as the incident became the 11th of the kind in the last 2 years. Kicking Solana When It’s Down? On February 6, the Solana blockchain network…
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The Solana blockchain network is currently experiencing an outage, marking its 11th such incident in the past two years. As of the latest updates, Solana’s mainnet-beta has been non-operational for about two hours, with block progression coming to a standstill. Solana Network Comes To A Standstill The issue was first noticed when Solscan and OKLink,…
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A community member argued that outages put decentralized finance protocols running on Solana at risk of insolvency. As the Solana network suffered another setback, crypto community members went on social media to express various concerns, even comparing the blockchain to other projects like Ethereum and Bitcoin. On Feb. 25, the Solana network faced performance degradation…
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The proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain network Solana suffered another outage on September 30 and the network restart did not take effect until six hours later on October 1. Solana has suffered a myriad of network outages during the last year, and the blockchain’s latest downtime caused the network’s native currency to slide 4% lower against the…
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The Solana smart contract project is suffering from issues once again after it was discovered that close to 8,000 Solana-based wallets have been compromised. Solana is asking victimized wallet owners to complete a survey and the team stressed that “engineers are investigating the root cause.” Solana Investigates Massive Wallet Exploit, Root Cause of the Hack…
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On June 1, 2022, the Solana network halted block production again as the blockchain network has stopped working a number of times during the network’s lifetime. According to the Solana status update, validator operators are being asked to prepare for a restart. Solana Continues to Be Plagued by Outages, SOL Downtime Denounced by the Crypto…
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NFT minting bots on Solana contributed over 4 million transactions per second, knocking validators out of consensus and crashing the network for around seven hours. The Solana network suffered a seven-hour outage overnight between Saturday and Sunday due to a large number of transactions from the nonfungible token (NFT) minting bots. A record-breaking four million…
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While Ethereum users participating in the Otherside metaverse land sale caused network fees to rise and created issues for the blockchain explorer Etherscan, it overshadowed Solana’s blockchain network outage. It seems a flood of inbound transactions on Saturday caused Solana’s mainnet to lose consensus for roughly seven hours. Solana’s Mainnet Loses Consensus for 7 Hours…
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SOL has been forming a bull pennant following its 14,200% year-to-date price rally. Solana (SOL) price technicals suggest SOL can hit $275 in the coming sessions. The upside outlook for the world’s sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization comes as it consolidates inside a range that appears like a bull pennant. In detail, Bull Pennants are…
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The decentralized exchange (dex) platform Orca has announced the platform has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round with Polychain, Placeholder, and Three Arrows co-leading the funding. The dex platform is a Solana-based project that aims to be the “go-to swap” platform for Solana.
Solana’s Orca Gets an $18 Million Capital Raise
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