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A Routing Bug Took Solana 86% of the Way to Losing Finality

Decrypt·August 12, 2026·1 min read
A Routing Bug Took Solana 86% of the Way to Losing Finality

A routing bug involving a malformed default route at a single hosting provider took almost 29% of staked SOL offline. This fell against a 33% threshold for losing finality, bringing Solana 86% of the way to that critical point. The incident exposed network vulnerability risks.

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