Cardano Network Up And Running a After Brief Node Outage
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Cardano network saw a brief node outage on Sunday that was automatically fixed within minutes with no singular root cause determined at the time of writing this article. Several developers reported the error on GitHub but said all nodes were restarted automatically.
What Caused the Cardano Node Outage?
Block producing nodes were temporarily affected. Nodes are network stakeholders that maintain and process transactions on any blockchain and are very essential to any network’s upkeep.
Reasons for node failure can range from an overload of transactional activity to faulty code. However, a quick fix may indicate strong fundamentals for the affected network.
How Did the Cardano Community See the Quick Fix?
Blockchain nodes have previously gone offline on networks such as Solana, with one such instance causing the entire Solana network to go offline for over seven hours last May. In a separate instance in 2021, Solana validators had to restart the network to troubleshoot a network stoppage.
The Cardano community is cheering the quick revival, calling it evidence of Cardano being a better blockchain than Solana, which took several hours to restore the network when it faced multiple outages in 2022.