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Solana's August finality scare

An analysis says a single hosting error took ~90 validators offline for 33 minutes, pushing dark stake to 28.83% against a 33.34% finality threshold.

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What we know

An analyst details the Aug 12 incident: one routing error in Miami, ~90 validators offline for 33 minutes, blocks continued but finality had only 4.5 points of headroom.

Sources

@toly

“1 routing error at 1 hosting provider in Miami. ~90 validators offline for 33 minutes.”

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