The Solana network has been successfully restarted and upgraded, and protocols are expected to fully recover in the next few hours. The Mainnet Beta went offline after facing a massive increase in transactions which caused it to fork. The Mainnet Beta of Solana, one of the fast-growing blockchain networks, came to a halt yesterday for over 16 hours following a massive increase in transaction load on the network. This incident spurred a moment of concern for Solana users and communities, given the robust properties flaunted for the network. At the moment, however, the Solana network has been successfully upgraded and restarted. The Solana team tweeted a few hours ago that the validator community was able to successfully restart the Mainnet Beta while launching a network upgrade to 1.6.12. The overall network, including decentralized applications (DApps), block explorers, and supporting systems, is expected to return to normalcy in a few hours. The Solana validator community successfully completed a restart of Mainnet Beta after an upgrade to 1.6.25. Dapps, block explorers, and supporting systems will recover over the next several hours, at which point full functionality should be restored.— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) September 15, 2021 What happened to the Solana network? According to the team, transactions on the Solana Mainnet Beta spiked to 400,000 TPS on Tuesday, resulting in a massive load ...
