Solana Nearly Hit Its Halt Threshold After Routing Failure

TL;DR

• 28.76% of staked SOL became delinquent.
• Only 19.9 million SOL remained before the threshold.
• One routing failure hit validators across multiple regions.
• The incident exposed shared infrastructure concentration.

Solana stayed online on August 12, but the margin was much thinner than normal uptime statistics would suggest.

A routing failure affecting validators tied to the same infrastructure provider pushed 28.76% of all staked SOL into delinquent status, according to a reconstruction by Marinade Finance. At the worst point, only 19.9 million SOL separated the network from the one-third stake threshold where normal finality could stop.

Nearly 29% of Staked SOL Stopped Voting

Marinade Finance reconstructed the outage window validator by validator, showing how quickly delinquent stake built across the network on August 12.

The worst point came at roughly 03:58 UTC. Solana had 434.93 million SOL actively staked at the time, with 125.08 million SOL no longer voting normally, 28.76% of the total. The one-third mark was around 144.98 million SOL, putting the network about 86% of the way there.

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