On Wednesday, Solana came 33 minutes from stopping. A single routing fault at one hosting provider, which held over a quarter of all staked SOL, knocked 28.83% of the network offline. At 33.34% the chain loses finality. Solana got 86% of the way there, then recovered.

And it was the lucky one. In 2026 four chains actually went dark:

• Sui, twice (about 6h, then 6h44m)

• Base, twice in a single week

• Starknet, at the start of the year

Ethereum, BNB, Aptos, Hyperliquid and Avalanche never flinched.