Solana stays online as 102 of 699 validators stop voting

Solana remained operational through an infrastructure failure that temporarily disrupted part of its validator network on Aug. 12, according to Solana Foundation technology executive Jacob Creech. Summary 597 of 699 staked Solana validators kept voting while the network continued producing blocks normally. 102 validators temporarily stopped voting, while affected operators recovered within forty minutes after the disruption. 28.83% of staked SOL went delinquent, approaching the 33.34% threshold where transaction finality stops entirely. Teraswitch said a malformed route disrupted twelve European and Asian sites before engineers restored connectivity. Solana’s status page recorded no mainnet incident and shows 100% cluster uptime across ninety days. Of 699 staked Solana validators, 597 continued voting while blocks and transactions continued to be processed. Affected validators recovered within 40 minutes. Creech said validators in the Solana Foundation Delegation Program were unaffected. Solana’s official status page recorded no mainnet incident on Aug. 12 or Aug. 13 and showed 100% Mainnet Beta cluster uptime over the previous 90 days. Solana validators kept finality despite a sha...