The Solana network experienced a major outage on Feb. 6 at 10:22 UTC, and engineers from across the ecosystem are investigating the problem on the mainnet beta.

The Solana mainnet is experiencing downtime in block production, and block progression is currently halted, with core engineers and validators actively investigating. The Solana blockchain explorer confirmed the downtime by flashing a “major outage” on the mainnet.

Users on social media started to notice that the Solana blockchain hadn’t produced a block in over 25 minutes, which is considerably longer than its usual block production time of 400 milliseconds.

Solana validator Stakewiz stated that developers are currently building a release containing a fix. Once it’s built and tested, further instructions will be released to validators. Stakewiz also noted that validators have “begun generating snapshots using their local ledger state to prepare for a restart” as core engineers prepare the release. Currently, validators are producing the snapshots for slot 246464040 and ensuring there is consistency on the bank hash at this slot.

Validators will be restarting the Mainnet-Beta cluster using version 1.17.20, jito-solana release is also available. There are no inconsistencies in state found and validators are awaiting final confirmation from core engineers to proceed.

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