Looking back at Solana outages, why are they frequent?
Solana has now released Mainnet-v1.10.40 and v1.13.2, which fix the issue that caused the network outage last week. Last week, we have learned, Solana outages is due to the error of a validator configuration , running the repeated validator instances, this means that when it’s turn to produce block and each instance will be produce a block, for the other validators, some see is the instance of A block, some see is the instance of the block B, They couldn’t tell which block was correct, eventually causing the network to go down. Solana’s “downtime” problem is now often criticized by the community, in addition to last week’s more than 10 hours of downtime, Solana has experienced several downtime or network jamming in the past, WuBlockchain organized as follows： 1. Around October 1, 2022, the network is down due to a node configuration error. 2. Around August 3, 2022, there was a mass theft of tokens from Solana wallets, which was eventually found to be due to a vulnerability caused by ...