The Solana blockchain network suffered one of the major outages on Tuesday, February 6, with the platform becoming dysfunctional for nearly 5 hours. Although the outage stands resolved, Matthew Sigel, head of digital assets at VanEck explains what exactly led to the outage.
BFP Loader Failure Led to the Solana Outage
Matthew Sigel said that the outage was due to a failure in the BPF loader, or “Berkley Packet Filter,” which serves as the mechanism for deploying, upgrading, and executing programs on Solana. According to Sigel, the issue stemmed from a Solana Improvement Proposal (SMID) that introduced changes, including the addition of a blocker to prevent the use of metadata in the BPF.
This alteration was part of upgrade 0093. While a fix was developed after the bug was detected on the testnet, it had not been implemented pending further testing. There is speculation that a manual trigger causedf the bug, leading to the network’s downtime.
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