The Solana network experienced an outage on Feb. 6, 10:22 UTC and engineers from across the ecosystem are investigating an outage on mainnet-beta.
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Solana Mainnet-Beta is experiencing downtime in block production as block progression is currently halted, and core engineers and validators are actively investigating. The Solana Blockchain Explorer flashing a “major outage” on the mainnet.
Solana blockchain outage warning. Source: Solana
Users on social media started to notice that the Solana blockchain hasn’t produced a block in over 25 minutes, which is considerably long considering Solana has a block production time of 400 milliseconds.
Solana blockchain stops block production. Source: X
This is not the first time when Solana blockchain has faced a network outage or downtime in block production, the network has been plagued with multiple downtime
This is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.