Solana Halts Block Production, Validators Told to Prep for a Restart, Network...

Solana Halts Block Production, Validators Told to Prep for a Restart, Network...

On June 1, 2022, the Solana network halted block production again as the blockchain network has stopped working a number of times during the network’s lifetime. According to the Solana status update, validator operators are being asked to prepare for a restart. Solana Continues to Be Plagued by Outages, SOL Downtime Denounced by the Crypto Community The blockchain network Solana (SOL) is down again as the network has been halted by the development team. The Twitter account Solana Status (@solanastatus) tweeted about the incident on Wednesday at 12:56 p.m. (ET) and the Solana status....


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