Despite Solana’s recent outage, root cause still unknown as SOL…

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Days after Solana [SOL] experienced another outage, the blockchain’s engineers have yet to ascertain the cause. In the early hours of 27 February, Solana put the word out that the problem that surfaced was still under investigation.

— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) February 27, 2023

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On 25 February, Solana users were unable to perform transactions on the network. The problem lingered such that initial attempts to restart transactions were unsuccessful.

While validators had to cease their strive, Solana users bore the brunt and had to wait until the next day before engineers got headway. 

However, the cause of the downtime was still not identified at press time. According to the Solana communique, 

“The cause of this is still unknown and under active investigation. Due to the performance degradation, validator nodes automatically entered vote-only mode, a ‘safe mode’ designed to help the network recover in the event of data unavailability.”

While the Solana mainnet is now functional, it is important to note that the blockchain had several outages in 2022. Now that another has happened in the new year, it suggests that Solana might need to work on securing its network against breaches and also polish where faults remain.

Following the intermission, the Solana development activity shrunk significantly to 22.23. The metric describes how dedicated a team is to pushing out a working product.

At the time of writing, the development had