The layer-1 Sui blockchain is back online and “fully operational” after a six-hour network outage stalled transactions on the high-speed network.
“Transactions are flowing normally. If you are still seeing issues, please refresh your app or browser window,” the Sui Foundation posted to X on Wednesday.
The foundation confirmed the outage on Wednesday at 3:24pm UTC, informing its 1.1 million X followers that Sui core developers were actively working on a solution.
The Sui Foundation has not explained how the Consensus outage came about, which restricted more than $1 billion in value on the chain and prevented users from transacting on the network.
The Sui Foundation said it started investigating the issue on Wednesday at 2:52 pm UTC, and resolved the problem at 8:44 pm UTC, bringing the network back online after 5 hours and 52 minutes.
Incident marks Sui’s second major outage
The high-speed blockchain also faltered in November 2024, with Wednesday’s incident marking the second major outage since the network launched in May 2023.
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Solana has faced similar issues in the past, but has not reported a major network-wide outage in the past 18 months.
Solana has previously rolled out emergency updates allowing validators to better coordinate to fix critical client-side issues.
Just last week, the Solana Status X account called on validators to upgrade to a new version containing a “critical set of patches.”
SUI briefly spikes 4% amid network outage
Sui’s (SUI) token price has remained largely flat since the Sui Foundation confirmed the outage, but briefly rose 4% on the news before settling back around $1.84, CoinGecko data shows.
