Cardano Network Quickly Returns To Normal After Brief Node Outage

Key Points:

• Cardano network experienced a brief outage on Sunday that was automatically fixed in a matter of minutes with no single root cause identified.
• Blockchain nodes have already gone down on networks like Solana; one such incident late May caused the entire Solana network to be down for more than seven hours. Solana validators had to restart the network in a different incident in 2021 to fix a network standstill.
• A speedy resolution, however, might signify solid fundamentals for the impacted network. The speedy recovery is being applauded by the Cardano community, who claims it is proof that Cardano is a superior blockchain to Solana, which took several hours to repair the network after numerous outages in 2022.

According to developers, the Cardano network experienced a brief outage on Sunday that was automatically fixed in a matter of minutes with no single root cause identified as of the time of writing.

Although many developers claimed that all nodes were automatically restarted, they still reported the error on GitHub.

Block-generating nodes were momentarily impacted, as seen by a Telegram broadcast message. Nodes are network stakeholders that are crucial to the maintenance of any network since they maintain and execute transactions on any blockchain.

“There was a brief period of degradation,” Rick McCracken, a developer building staking tools for Cardano, tweeted. “Most nodes impacted had gracefully recovered. No network restart was required.”

Blockchain nodes have already gone down on networks like Solana; one such incident late May caused the entire Solana network to be down for more than seven hours. Solana validators had to restart the network in a different incident in 2021 to fix a network standstill.

On networks like Solana, blockchain nodes have in the past gone down. One such incident last May caused the entire Solana network to be down for more than seven hours.

Solana validators had to restart the network in a different incident in 2021

Node failure can occur for a variety of reasons, such as an excess of transactional activity or flawed code. A speedy resolution, however, might signify solid fundamentals for the impacted network. The speedy recovery is being applauded by the Cardano community, who claims it is proof that Cardano is a superior blockchain to Solana, which took several hours to repair the network after numerous outages in 2022.

“The real takeaway for me is how impressively resilient the cardano network is. Something took down ~60% of nodes and the network recovered in a few minutes, and continued producing blocks throughout,” Pi Lanningham, chief technology officer of Cardano-based decentralized exchange SundaeSwap, tweeted.

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