Key Takeaways



On Friday night, Solana announced that the network was “experiencing degraded performance.”   Solana has suffered at least 7 network outages since its launch in 2020, with 6 of them coming this year. The Solana blockchain is back up and running after the glitch.



Solana network has recently been plagued with recurring network outages. On Friday night, Solana announced that the network was “experiencing degraded performance” and that Solana developers were working on diagnosing the issue. 



“The Solana network is experiencing an outage and not processing transactions. Developers across the ecosystem are working on diagnosing the issue and restarting the network. More information will be provided as it becomes available”, the blockchain’s announcement reads.




The Solana network is experiencing an outage and not processing transactions. Developers across the ecosystem are working on diagnosing the issue and to restart the network. More information will be provided as it becomes available. — Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) October 1, 2022




A few hours after this, Solana tweeted that it had performed the necessary restart of Mainnet Beta at 8 a.m. London time. “The network operators will continue to restore client services over the next several hours,” the tweet reads.




The Solana Mainnet cluster has successfully restarted a few minutes ago, new blocks are being finalized. So what exactly happened? We don't know everything yet, but here's some of what we do know