SUI Price Crashes 10% As Blockchain Goes Dark, Halting Block Production
The Sui network has ceased block production for over two hours, leading to a sharp decline in the token’s price. Data from suivision and suiscan indicate that block generation stopped at 09:15 UTC today, and the network has yet to resume normal operations. This marks the first major outage for the project, a blockchain praised as “Solana killer.” SUI Price Crashes Following Network Outage Members of the community have suggested that issues with validators might be the cause of the disruption. Validators, critical for processing transactions and maintaining the blockchain’s integrity, appear to be experiencing problems. The official status page, status.sui.io, acknowledges the issue, stating that they are “continuing to investigate” and confirming that “validators are down.” Despite these updates, the development team has not released an official statement detailing the root cause or providing a timeline for resolution. Blockchain security firm PeckShieldAlert confirmed the disruption, noting that the “Sui blockchain network appears to be experiencing delays, with reports indicating that the latest block has produced over an hour ago.” #PeckShieldAlert #Sui blockchain network appears to be experiencing delays, with reports indicating that the latest block was produced over an hour ago pic.twitter.com/KHFpmMqKxB — PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) November 21, 2024 The incident has sparked discussions on social media, with several crypto community members drawing parallels between Sui’s current situation and Solana’s past network outages. Crypto analyst Quinten Francois commented, “SUI has been down for 55 min, with no blocks produced during this period. SOL 2.0?” Similarly, WantCoinNews expressed interest in how the Sui community and developers will handle the downtime, stating that their response could “either destroy or strengthen the trust in the chain.” They added a personal note, saying, “Let me just ignore this Solana type FUD and look for entries. Minimum $5.” Ben Armstrong, known as BitBoy, weighed in on the matter: “It is with great pause, I declare SUI officially the next SOL. How many times do I have to say it? Can’t wait to hear from the team on this one. Solana has taught us that it’s way better for a blockchain to be overwhelmed than not used.” Following the news of the outage, the token’s price dropped by 7%. Over the last 24 hours, the SUI price has fallen by nearly 10%, reflecting investor concerns over the network’s reliability. Despite this setback, SUI remains one of the few altcoins to have reached a new all-time high in the current market cycle. 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