Solana Nearly Freezes as Data Center Outage Knocks 29% of Staked Tokens Offline

TLDR

• A routing failure at data center provider Teraswitch knocked nearly 29% of Solana’s staked tokens offline on Wednesday
• The network came within roughly 20 million SOL of the 33.34% threshold that would have caused a full freeze
• The outage originated at Teraswitch’s Miami facility and spread to data centers across Europe and Asia
• One single network operator controlled more than a quarter of all staked SOL, above Solana’s own safety limit
• Solana Foundation said blocks and transactions never stopped, calling it proof of the network’s resilience

Solana came close to a complete network freeze on Wednesday after a routing failure at data center provider Teraswitch knocked nearly 29% of staked tokens offline. The incident raised fresh questions about how concentrated Solana’s infrastructure really is.

Solana Stays Online as Outage Disrupts 102 of 699 Validators

Solana Foundation technology executive Jacob Creech said an infrastructure provider used by some validators suffered an outage overnight, but the Solana network continued producing blocks and processing transactions… pic.twitter.com/lNqpmGYIdX

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