{"id":10451,"date":"2022-05-02T05:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/solana-suffers-7th-outage-in-2022-as-bots-invade-the-network\/"},"modified":"2022-05-02T05:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:04:57","slug":"solana-suffers-7th-outage-in-2022-as-bots-invade-the-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/solana-suffers-7th-outage-in-2022-as-bots-invade-the-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana suffers 7th outage in 2022 as bots invade the network"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Solana (SOL) network suffered a seven-hour outage overnight between April 30 and May 1 due to a large number of transactions from nonfungible token (NFT) minting bots.<\/p>\n
A record-breaking 4 million transactions, or 100 gigabits of data per second, congested the network causing validators to be knocked out of consensus resulting in Solana going dark at roughly 8 PM UTC on April 30.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until seven hours later on May 1, 3 AM UTC that validators were able to successfully restart the main network.<\/p>\n
\nValidator operators successfully completed a cluster restart of Mainnet Beta at 3:00 AM UTC, following a roughly 7 hour outage after the network failed to reach consensus. <\/p>\n
Network operators an dapps will continue to restore client services over the next several hours. https:\/\/t.co\/ezqEYQYKWl<\/p>\n
\u2014 Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The bots hoarded a popular application used by Solana NFT projects to launch collections called Candy Machine. In a Twitter post by Metaplex, the company confirmed that traffic from bots on their app was partially to blame for the network crash.<\/p>\n
\nToday #Solana<\/a> mainnet-beta went down partially due to botting on the Metaplex Candy Machine program. To combat this, we have merged and will soon deploy a botting penalty to the program as part of a broader effort to stabilize the network. https:\/\/t.co\/QaAZT3VxXz<\/p>\n