Solana blockchain goes offline for six hours due to unknown error

4 December c 16:46 MSC in the SOLANA blockchain stopped producing blocks. The problem was solved only after six hours, However, the developers did not report the reasons for stopping the network.

“Approximately in 1:46 UTC 4 December Closure of Valina Mainnet Beta validators stopped producing Blocks on Slash 53 180 900. The Solana team is actively working on the restart of the network. There is no risk for funds ", - wrote SOLANA developers on the social network Twitter.

After stopping the blockchain’s work, the developer team asked the validators to cooperate and restart the network. However, it took six hours to restart the main SOLANA network.

At the same time in the instructions, which were transferred to the validators, The reason for stopping the network operation was not indicated. The reasons were not named and later. Developers promised to publish more detailed information later.

SOLANA network performance was restored 4 December c 22:32 in Moscow time. The validators began to produce blocks again, but user funds were not injured. However, the Sol cryptocurrency course fell on 10%.

In early October, SOLANA developers launched a bilateral gateway into the Ethereum network, which allows you to exchange the ERC-20 standard tokens for SPL tokens for use in decentralized financing applications.