KB-96542804 How to turn a blockchain off and on again
To be honest, this process is not different I have seen on some other chains and during the EOS launch party.
1) Verify state and software version
2) Choose what chain to follow
What makes it interesting is slashing etc. and what happens with penalties for validators.
While events like this have happened before for chains, and many testnets, I do think the scale of this event sets a precendence.
Here are some of the Solana fixes
Althouggh understanding the changes would one need to be an expert in Solana node codebase, which is only a handful of people, this tells an interesting story how to tune the train while it is moving.
Probably some of these issues could be caught in vigorous performance testing and network simulation - or they were but not released yet.
But any case, it is a very interesting story of engineering and (maybe) cascading failures en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading…
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