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Stake pool operators (SPO) and several users have reported that roughly half of Cardano network nodes had temporarily switched off at the weekend.
An Input Output Global Telegram SPO post on Sunday stated that issues with roughly 50 percent of Cardano nodes forced a start and restart of the network.
It explained that the incident took place at 00:09 UCT, disrupting relay and block-producing nodes. This caused peer connections to disconnect and triggered exceptions.
Last night during the anomaly on the #Cardano network, the entire network did not go down. There was a brief period of degradation. Most nodes impacted had gracefully recovered. No network restart was required. pic.twitter.com/FupQXk2otV
— Rick McCracken DIGI (@RichardMcCrackn) January 22, 2023
Reassuring users, the post continued,
“Block production was only briefly impacted with a portion of the network falling out of sync for approximately https://cardanoscan.io/block/8300569 before nodes restarted. Therefore impact was low – akin to the delays that occur during normal operations and often seen at epoch boundaries. Most nodes automatically recovered – depending on the SPO deployment choice.”
It concluded that teams were investigating the root causes for the technical snafu and would implement additional logging measures along with normal procedures.
Node Shark Observations
Node Shark co-founder Tom Stokes wrote in a post at the same time that the incident had hit roughly 50 percent of the nodes on the network. Citing a chart, he revealed that network synching plummeted from 100 percent to 40 percent for more than 300 nodes.
A few hours ago over half of all #Cardano nodes went offline. This is why decentralization matters. pic.twitter.com/NXDVyKy8ep
— Tom Stokes (@eUTxO_pro) January 22, 2023
An additional SPO added at the time that “some SPOs saw no impact,” adding “Others had relays and BPs restart. SPOs, Devs, and IOG are in Discord debugging atm. No root cause yet.”
The news comes after Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko reported his cryptocurrency platform faced similar problems in early November. The efforts come after Solana updated its operations following outage concerns over its network.
Speaking at the Breakpoint 2022 event in Lisbon last year, Yakovenko explained how the Solana network faced many concerns linked to its network stability and running time.