Solana Network Nearly Stopped Working Today. Should SOL Investors Worry?

Solana (SOL) came within five percentage points of a full network halt on Wednesday morning. One routing glitch at one hosting company knocked 28.83% of all staked SOL offline in minutes. Almost nobody noticed.

Staking platform Marinade Finance reconstructed the incident and found the network got 86% of the way to the 33.34% line where Solana stops finalizing transactions.

Chart of delinquent Solana stake peaking near the 33.33% Solana network halt threshold, Source: Marinade Finance Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens How One Bad Route Nearly Halted the Solana Network The fault began at Teraswitch, a hosting provider popular with Solana validators.

A broken route left its Miami site, then spread through an internal relay in Amsterdam. Twelve sites from London to Tokyo lost their connection. North America never felt it.