Solana devs tackle bug, hope to prevent further network outage

Developers have fixed the runtime bug that caused the Solana network to go down on June 1.

According to a June 5 report from Solana Labs, Solana's fifth outage in 2022 was caused by a bug in the "durable nonce transaction function," which caused the network to stop producing blocks for about four and a half years. Hour.

"Durable nonce transactions are disabled in v1.9.28/v1.10.23 to prevent the network from stalling if the same situation occurs again."

"Durable nonce transactions will not be processed until mitigations are applied and the feature is reactivated in an upcoming release," they added.

The term durable nonce transaction refers to a type of transaction on Solana that is designed not to expire, unlike normal transactions on the network.

According to the Solana Documentation, which is typically used to support transactions related to channels such as escrow services, it takes more time than usual to "generate a signature for a transaction".

Solana Labs notes that durable nonce transactions require a separate "mechanism to prevent duplicate processing and be processed in a serial fashion." However, after a durable nonce transaction was processed as a normal transaction and failed, a runtime error occurred, But then it was submitted again, causing the network to crash.

"After processing a failed transaction, the user resubmits the same transaction for processing before the nonce is used again. This resubmission activates a bug in the runtime," the report reads.

Since the mainnet outage on June 1, the price of Solana’s native asset, SOL, has fallen about 13.9% to $39.08 at the time of writing. However, investor trading interest in the asset has only grown, with 24-hour trading volume up 61 percent to $2.141 billion in the same time frame, according to CoinGecko.

More broadly, data from Solana-focused analytics platform Hello Moon shows that the total value of on-chain moves (successes), measured as a seven-day rolling average, has declined significantly since late March.

After reaching an all-time high of about $3.18 trillion on March 24, that figure had plummeted to about $159.71 billion as of June 4.