Remote procedure call (RPC) endpoints managed by the Solana Foundation have become unavailable due to nodes that rely on crypto applications and wallets to connect to the blockchain.
The nodes went down due to a bug in the Solana Validator 1.14 test release of the client.
Mainnet beta Explorer and Solana Foundation Public RPC endpoints are currently offline as RPC node software is upgraded, following a bug in test release 1.14.
Block production has not been impacted and the Solana network has not been impacted.
— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) January 8, 2023
However, the incident did not affect Solana’s ability to produce new blocks, unlike past shutdowns that halted block production for several hours. Also, even though the foundation’s RPC endpoints were disabled, private RPCs offered by firms such as Triton, QuickNode, and Alchemy remained online and usable.
The Solana developers have identified the latest test update version 1.14 as the root cause of the crash. The update was performed by the Solana Foundation node operators on their RPC endpoints and affected the public RPC endpoints and the mainnet beta explorer. Beta Explorer is a tool that analyzes online transactions and displays them to users in a simplified way.
Solana experienced 14 outages in 2022 alone, lasting a total of 4 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes. The last major outage in the Solana network occurred in October, due to which the network did not generate new blocks for several hours. Due to an error in the operation, SOL quotes in the SOL/USD trading pair fell by more than 4% to $32.9.
However, despite a number of difficulties in the past year, Solana continues to work.
Source: CryptoNewsHerald.com
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