SUI Blockchain Recovers from Six-Hour Consensus Outage, $1B in Transactions Frozen
The Sui blockchain, a rapidly growing LAYER 1 network developed by Mysten Labs, experienced a nearly six-hour outage that froze over $1 billion in transactions. The disruption began in the afternoon and was resolved by 8:44 p.m. UTC, with the Sui Foundation attributing it to a "consensus outage"—a technical failure preventing transaction confirmation.
Core developers worked swiftly to restore functionality, announcing full operational status on X. The incident review will be published in the coming days. Notably, sui has gained traction as a competitor to high-throughput networks like Aptos, recently surpassing $10 billion in 30-day DEX volume.