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Sui Mainnet Outage Halts Blocks and Checkpoints for Hours

Developers say a fix is being deployed as they investigate the cause without giving a timeline for recovery.

Overview

  • On-chain data shows no new checkpoints since 14:22 UTC on Jan. 14, with the disruption lasting more than three hours by 17:45 UTC.
  • Consensus and finalization have stalled, stopping block and checkpoint production and leaving all submitted transactions unprocessed.
  • The core team acknowledged the stall at 7:18 a.m. PT and reported that a fix is being implemented, but they have not disclosed the root cause or an ETA.
  • Sui’s status page lists a consensus outage that has been identified, with remediation efforts in progress.
  • Ecosystem services including SuiScan and Slush report degraded performance or unavailability during the network disruption.