Solana stays online as 102 of 699 validators stop voting
Aug 13, 2026
Solana remained operational through an infrastructure failure that temporarily disrupted part of its validator network on Aug. 12, according to Solana Foundation technology executive Jacob Creech.
Of 699 staked Solana validators, 597 continued voting while blocks and transactions continued to be processed. Affected validators recovered within 40 minutes.
Solana validators kept finality despite a sharp drop
While the mainnet stayed online, separate analysis showed the incident came closer to disrupting finality than the raw validator count suggests. Marinade Finance found 28.83% of all staked SOL became delinquent for about 33 minutes. Solana requires more than two-thirds of stake to participate for transactions to reach finality, putting the relevant offline threshold at 33.34%.
Teraswitch routing fault spread from Miami to Asia
Teraswitch’s status report traced the infrastructure problem to a malformed default route originating from its MIA1 facility in Miami. A route reflector in Amsterdam propagated the altered route into European and Asia Pacific markets, where local routers preferred it over valid routes.
Solana avoids a repeat of its 2024 network halt
The outcome contrasts with the network’s February 2024 restart after block production stopped. Validators required a coordinated restart during that incident, and Solana remained offline for nearly five hours. The Aug. 12 infrastructure failure did not require a mainnet restart.
What happens next
Teraswitch’s immediate configuration fix is already deployed, but its investigation is not finished. The provider is still examining why the Miami default route was advertised with incorrect attributes and has engaged its hardware vendor. A full report is expected once that work is completed.
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