Solana neared a freeze threshold Wednesday, Marinade Finance says. The Foundation says it held up under stress.
A routing glitch at a major data center provider knocked nearly 29% of Solana’s staked tokens offline, bringing the network within striking distance of a full freeze, while Foundation executives stressed that blocks and
- A routing failure at a major data center provider briefly knocked nearly 29% of Solana’s staked tokens offline, bringing the network close to a full halt, according to staking platform Marinade.
- Because Solana stops finalizing transactions if more than one-third of staked tokens go offline, the incident left the network within about 20 million tokens of a freeze similar to a five-hour outage in February 2024.
- The glitch, traced to a bad internet route originating at Teraswitch’s Miami facility and spreading to data centers in Europe and Asia, exposed the risk of relying on a single connectivity provider that controlled more than a quarter of all staked tokens.
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