The team behind Solana yesterday gave a detailed report on how its validators from all over the world rescued the network from an outage that lasted nearly 18 hours.
IDO Bots Responsible for Solana’s Downtime
According to the report, the network outage was a result of Grape Protocol’s IDO, which launched on the Raydium exchange in the early hours of September 14th.
While trying to manipulate the rules of the IDO, several traders used bots to generate limitless transactions, causing the Solana blockchain to experience a memory overflow.
Since Solana’s mainnet is still in beta, it lacked prioritization of network-critical messaging, which caused it to start forking and slowed down transaction processing.
What the project thought could be fixed in a few minutes lasted for hours, as the continuous forking caused several validators to crash, and the network subsequently went offline.
Solana Restarts After Network Upgrade
All steps to resolve the issue, including a proposal by the vali
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