The Solana blockchain is back up and running following a shutdown of more than four hours, the latest in a series of outages of the network in less than a year. According to <a href="https://solanabeach.io/blocks">data</a> from Solana Beach block explorer, Solana's validators did not process new blocks for nearly four and half hours, causing a total shutdown of all of its applications. The official Twitter account of Solana Status also tweeted about the incident on Wednesday at 12:56 p.m. (ET).

https://twitter.com/SolanaStatus/status/1532043450107015168

To fix the latest outage, validators had to restart, following instructions linked from the same Twitter account, which later said the outage lasted four and a half hours.

https://twitter.com/SolanaStatus/status/1532106367279955969

Over the last year, Solana has suffered numerous outages and suffered from block congestion. Last September, the network was <a href="https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/solana-blockchain-returning-to-full-functionality-after-tuesdays-shutdown/">down</a> for nearly 18 hours after being overwhelmed by transactions being sent to a DeFi protocol for a new token launch. More recently, on April 30, the network crashed after NFT minting bots (automated programs designed to game the launch of a new NFT project) overwhelmed Solana with a reported 6 million transactions per second. Most recently, on May 1, Solana froze up for several hours before it was similarly brought back online following a restart of its validator network.

Solana Blockchain Restarts After Another Shutdown In a Series of Outages

Solana is back up and running following a shutdown of more than four hours, the latest in a series of outages of the network in less than a year. 

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Solana Blockchain Restarts After Another Shutdown In a Series of Outages

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