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Solana's breakdowns have once again raised questions about the first layer 1 blockchain design.
Validators attempted to reboot the network twice during the weekend following the chain freeze. There was a time when Solana only handled 93 GST. After the performance degradation, the community of validators eventually had to opt for a synchronized reboot of the network chain.
Solana Outage Again
According to the official blog post, the cause of the outage has not been determined yet, but Solana is still under active investigation. Solana's still being investigated.
The team stated that the network could not recover without the community of validators. The decision to restart the network has been suggested by the engineers.
As a result, the validator community agreed to downgrade to the previous stable v1.13.6. At the same time, 1.14 was implemented to mitigate the risk of rebooting. A first attempt to reboot has been cancelled to allow for further analysis of the data and to ensure that no user transactions are affected. A first attempt to reboot has been cancelled to allow for further analysis of the data and to ensure that no user transactions are affected.
After further analysis, the community collectively rebooted the network using a slot that was older than the previously selected slot.
There were no confirmed user transactions cancelled or affected." There were no confirmed user transactions cancelled or impacted." As a result of last year's community response, Solana suffered 14 outages, with both small and large outages. A user called “DBCrypt0” said Solana’s on-chain consensus model involves network transactions consisting of consensus communication between validators and the transactions themselves, which “inflates the transaction volume as well as TPS.”
Irate members of the community noted that the ongoing interruptions may be due to a major design failure of the system.
A user named "dbcrypt0" said Solana's chain consensus model implies network transactions consisting of consensus communication between validators and the transactions themselves, that "inflates the deal volume as well as tps." they also criticized the network, I can't believe Solana's bragging about the 4K GST, only 10% are "real" transactions but add that the majority of the volume consists of messages from validators, Eventually, the system is paralyzed. In the event of a breakdown, communication between validators ceases, during which they turn to discord to chart a course.
However, two-thirds of validators need to agree on a solution to recover, and some of them may be offline or not aware of the interruption. Last year, the team behind its development even laid out ways to mitigate such incidents. Solana's technological downturns are nothing new.
