Solana has published a resilience review centered on an August 12, 2026 infrastructure incident. According to the account, a routing failure at the network's largest infrastructure provider temporarily knocked nearly 29% of stake offline, yet block production and transaction processing continued. The provider recovered in a little over 30 minutes, while the chain itself did not require a coordinated restart.
The project presents the outcome as the result of earlier reliability work rather than the absence of failures. The article says one infrastructure provider had previously hosted about 38% of network stake, prompting efforts to reduce that concentration below 30%. When the August routing failure occurred, the lower concentration helped the network absorb the outage without stopping.
Solana also says it has maintained 100% uptime since February 2024. Changes introduced after earlier periods of congestion include greater validator connection capacity, stake-weighted quality of service and a redesigned transaction scheduler intended to remove the incentive to repeatedly submit the same transaction.
The network is continuing to target lower latency as well. The article points to slot times around 300 milliseconds, a 200 ms target and the planned Alpenglow design with roughly 150 ms finality. Those figures are roadmap and performance claims from Solana; the concrete result from the August incident is that a large infrastructure failure did not halt mainnet operation.