Key facts
- Sui's mainnet experienced three outages in under 48 hours.
Sui mainnet halts traced to upgrade bug
IN SHORT
Sui's mainnet experienced three outages totaling over 18 hours due to bugs in the v1.72 software release. Issues included a gas-charging bug related to a new 'address balances' feature and a bug in the network's randomness system. No user funds were lost.
Key Numbers
3mainnet halts
48 hourstimeframe for halts
18 hourstotal downtime
6 hoursduration of final freeze
Who's Involved
Sui Foundation
published post-mortem on network outages and deployed upgrades
Sui Core Team
completed investigation and incident review
Mysten Labs
developer of the Sui blockchain
↳ Why This Matters
The Sui blockchain, a Layer 1 network developed by Mysten Labs, experienced its most disruptive period since launch with three mainnet outages occurring in under 48 hours. These disruptions, totaling over 18 hours of downtime, were attributed to bugs within the v1.72 software release, impacting network availability and raising stability concerns.