The Solana network experienced a major outage on Feb. 6, 10:22 UTC and engineers from across the ecosystem are investigating an outage on mainnet-beta.
Solana Mainnet-Beta is experiencing downtime in block production as block progression is currently halted, and core engineers and validators are actively investigating. The Solana Blockchain Explorer flashing a “major outage” on the mainnet.
Users on social media started to notice that the Solana blockchain hasn’t produced a block in over 25 minutes, which is considerably long considering Solana has a block production time of 400 milliseconds.
This is not the first time the Solana blockchain has faced a network outage or downtime in block production; the network has been plagued with multiple downtimes over the past few years. The latest outage will be 11th time in the past two years.
