Solana Dodges Finality Halt as 15% of Validators Go Offline

Solana’s validator network came within a hair’s breadth of a full transaction freeze on August 12, 2026. A routing glitch at infrastructure provider Teraswitch knocked nearly 29% of all staked SOL offline, pushing the Solana validator network to 86% of the critical 33.34% threshold where block finality would stop entirely. Ad Ad What Triggered the