“Solana Mainnet is experiencing a sizeable forking event
right now, and validators are investigating to determine the network health,
root cause, and next steps. Transactions may fail right now.”
Software and blockchain company Stakewiz operate a validator
node on Solana.
This causes the blockchain to fork, as validators can not
agree on the correct one. This fork caused a confusing code path that prevented
validators from switching back to the primary division.
Stakewiz believes that the Solana network did not fix the situation.
The cause of the problem still needs more work to be clarified.
“It’s not clear yet what is causing the current performance
degradation; turbine and repair appear to be operating at abnormally high
levels. We are seeing occasional new roots but very sporadically. The
investigation is ongoing.”
Although Solana is used by many people, it often makes users
bored because of constant problems