POPA Recon2026's Network Halts: Who Stopped, Who Nearly Did
2026's Network Halts: Who Stopped, Who Nearly Did On Wednesday, Solana came 33 minutes from stopping. A single routing fault at one hosting provider, which held over a quarter of all staked SOL, knocked 28.83% of the network offline. At 33.34% the chain loses finality. Solana got 86% of the way there, then recovered. And it was the lucky one. In 2026 four chains actually went dark: • Sui, twice (about 6h, then 6h44m) • Base, twice in a single week • Starknet, at the start of the year Ethereum, BNB, Aptos, Hyperliquid and Avalanche never flinched.
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