Solana nearly froze as a single routing error took 29% of the network stake offline
The Solana network kept producing blocks on Aug. 12 when an infrastructure failure stopped validators representing nearly 29% of network stake from voting, according to a Solana Foundation account published Sept. 14. Related Asset Solana #7 SOL · $97.32 24-hour change: down 4.00% Loading price history… 24H Down 4.00% 7D Down 6.36% 30D Up 28.98% Independent monitoring found that the chain remained live, yet its performance deteriorated: more leader slots were skipped, transaction throughput fell sharply, and settlement finality was delayed. The disruption began at Teraswitch, which the Foundation described as Solanas largest infrastructure provider. A Teraswitch postmortem traced the outage to a stale default route left on a Miami edge router, with Teraswitchs provider traffic fully recovering 33 minutes after the first alarm. Routine transit-provider maintenance activated that route, while transposed values in a routing policy applied a “no-export” instruction toward Europe and Asia-Pacific. In practical terms, the bad route spread across Teraswitchs network and prevented affected data centers from reaching the Internet through healthy local routers. Twelve sites across Europe and Asia-Pacific lost Internet and inter-site connectivity, including infrastructure hosting Solana validator and RPC nodes. Independent blockchain-risk monitoring firm Metrika broadly corroborated both the scale of the disruption and continuous block production. Its data








