The Solana network freeze continued on Saturday as validators prepared for a second restart attempt that they hope will restore blockchain service. However, it’s still unclear what caused the service to go down.
By Saturday evening EST, the validators running Solana’s infrastructure had already concluded that the best way to restore the chain would be to synchronize the reboot and fork the chain. The first restart attempt was rejected. Because the validators realized that they had chosen the wrong point to restart, and so this added to the delay.
The problems that started with slow transaction processing led to an almost complete shutdown of the Solana network, they said the validators and developers for the news portals. The block generation of the chain has stopped, transactions are not processed or validated.
For users of the chain, this means that they cannot initiate transactions. Their cryptoassets on the blockchain are immovable, frozen until the critical backend infrastructure is back online.
In the Solana ecosystem, root causes are searched for even hours after a problem has occurred. One leading theory is that a “fat block” destroyed the mechanics of the blockchain. However, it should be noted that the network switched to an updated version shortly before the problems started.
At the time of writing, the validators, in cooperation with the Solana Labs developers, tried again to restart the chain, and they managed to get the validators, who own about 70% of the total stake, behind the move. However, the network needs an 80% supermajority to continue.