Solana (SOL) network backup and running hours after suffering major outage

High-performance blockchain Solana (SOL) is now fully operational after recovering from a network instability problem.

The Solana Foundation says in a tweet that the network was upgraded and restarted successfully hours after the issue was first reported.

“The Solana validator community successfully completed a restart of Mainnet Beta after an upgrade to 1.6.25. Dapps, block explorers, and supporting systems will recover over the next several hours, at which point full functionality should be restored.”

The Solana Foundation announced the network issue less than an hour after it was first noted.

“Solana Mainnet Beta is experiencing intermittent instability. This began approximately 45 minutes ago, and engineers are investigating the issue.

Resource exhaustion in the network is causing a denial of service, engineers are working towards a resolution. Validators are preparing for a potential restart if necessary.”

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