2026-01-16 02:16:11

The Sui Foundation recently released a detailed review of the mainnet outage on January 14th. On that day, the mainnet experienced a prolonged disruption due to internal disagreements among validators regarding consensus processing, which caused the system to be unable to operate normally for an extended period. Specifically, validator nodes encountered issues when certifying new checkpoints, ultimately leading to transaction submission timeouts. The outage lasted approximately 6 hours, during which the network was paralyzed.

It is reported that the Sui Foundation conducted an in-depth technical analysis of this incident and detailed the specific vulnerabilities in the validator consensus mechanism in the report. Such events have a significant impact on the stability of public chains and serve as a reminder to ecosystem participants to pay attention to node operation and maintenance.

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LiquidationWatcher

· 7h ago

6 hours of network outage? How can validators be so contradictory Validator consensus mechanism has another vulnerability, Sui's stability really needs to be improved Why is it always the validator's issue, can checkpoint authentication also have problems? Node operation and maintenance are well understood, the key is how to prevent this from happening next time Sui's downtime this time was really uncomfortable, but luckily there wasn't too much loss Internal disputes among validators caused the entire network to go down, which is a bit outrageous A 6-hour timeout transaction, how many people got caught up in it... Such a serious flaw in the consensus mechanism, can the technical report be trusted? Another post-event report claiming "deep technical analysis," let's wait and see the repair results Node operation and maintenance? Basically, it's still the uneven quality of validators, right

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RebaseVictim

· 11h ago

6 hours of network outage is really incredible, once again the validators take the blame The issue with validator consensus is basically a problem with the architecture design, not something that can be explained by a small bug Sui's technical analysis report came out quite quickly, but to be honest... it feels like they haven't fully learned their lesson The importance of node operation and maintenance? It should have been emphasized earlier, now it's too late to catch up Only those who can hold up even when the mainnet crashes are true believers, otherwise who can really bear it?

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OnchainDetectiveBing

· 01-16 02:40

6 hours of network outage, how embarrassing... The validator infighting issue needs to be taken seriously.

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token_therapist

· 01-16 02:34

6 hours of paralysis? That's too outrageous, can validators really have such "disagreements"?

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FunGibleTom

· 01-16 02:32

Six hours of paralysis? Is this what they call enterprise-level stability? Haha I'm also stunned by the validator disagreements; how unprofessional can they be? It's the consensus mechanism again, feels like these kinds of incidents happen every now and then. Node operation and maintenance sound simple, but it's really hard to do in practice. No wonder so many people keep stumbling. What's the latest after the report? Have the vulnerabilities been patched? Can Sui still be saved? It feels like there have been quite a few issues in the past few months. I thought the mainnet had already been resolved if it could even go down.

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MoonWaterDroplets

· 01-16 02:32

6 hours of paralysis? This is our "high-performance" public chain, hilarious. When validator consensus issues occur, we still have to wait for the foundation to clean up the mess, really... It's another node problem, I'm tired of hearing about it.

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MoonMathMagic

· 01-16 02:27

6 hours of paralysis? That’s so embarrassing, are the validators fighting? --- It’s called “internal disagreement,” but honestly, it’s just nodes dropping the chain. --- Validators and consensus mechanisms—why weren’t all these vulnerabilities discovered earlier? --- Sui’s recent moves really make us reflect on what decentralization actually means. --- A 6-hour network outage—how many transactions were ruined... --- Wait, isn’t this just a “we know we were wrong” announcement? --- Node operation and maintenance, it sounds simple but how complicated can it really be? --- A mainnet outage—just thinking about it on Bitcoin is unthinkable. Sui still has a lot of work to do.

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