Solana marks 1,000 days without a network halt as activity climbs

The blockchain has produced blocks nonstop since February 2024, while DEX volume and transactions doubled and active traders grew sixfold Solana has now gone 1,000 consecutive days without a network halt. Its last full stoppage happened on February 6, 2024. The streak reached 1,000 days of 100% cluster-level uptime around November 2, 2026. The cluster is the full set of validators that run the network together, so this measures the chain as a whole, not one machine. In the months before the milestone, Solana’s status page showed 100% uptime. The stability did not come during a lull. Over the same period, average monthly DEX volume on Solana has doubled compared with February 2024. Total transactions processed on the network have also doubled across that timeframe. The standout figure involves people, not throughput. The number of active traders on Solana has grown sixfold from levels seen before the February 2024 halt. What broke in 2024, and what changed The February 6, 2024 outage stemmed from a bug in validator software. Specifically, the code got stuck in an infinite recompile loop, repeatedly redoing the same work without moving forward. The halt lasted approximately five hour...