Solana mainnet surpasses 30 months without consensus failures
Solana's mainnet has produced blocks without a single cluster-level outage for 30 consecutive months, equating to roughly 913 days since the last full outage on February 6, 2024, which lasted about five hours due to an infinite recompile loop bug. Official status reports show 100% uptime for June, July, and August 2026 while the chain handled high transaction volumes. The turnaround followed a broad protocol overhaul, notably the Firedancer validator client, a priority fee market, and QUIC transport improvements, though individual validator delinquencies—up to 32 in a 30-day span—still occur.
Solana's mainnet has run 30 months without cluster-level outages
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The network had frequent outages in 2022 and a cluster outage on February 6, 2024.…
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