MilestoneSolana2022
Solana Major Outage
A durable nonce bug halted Solana block production for hours, requiring validator coordination to restart.
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Key Facts
Peak metric7-hour downtime
OutcomePatch and restart
ChainSolana
Year2022
Typemilestone
Tags
reliabilityinfrastructure
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