Solana's "One Year Without Downtime"

According to Solana Status, today marks exactly one year since the blockchain’s last major outage. This is officially the longest uninterrupted uptime in Solana’s history — a milestone that, at first glance, seems worth celebrating. After all, this "record year" coincided with unprecedented network demand. If we look at the revenue chart for Solana-based apps over the past 12 months, activity has exploded by orders of magnitude. Maintaining stability during this surge should be a triumph.

But let’s rewind to January 18-20, 2025. During those three days, nearly every exchanger halted Solana asset swaps. Even Binance disabled Solana withdrawals. What happened?

At Rabbit Swap, we kept processing swaps. But for every Solana-based transaction, both our users and liquidity partners reported the same nightmare: they had to resend transactions dozens of times over hours for even a chance of success. Over 90% of transactions failed to process entirely.

So when I hear claims that Solana has operated "flawlessly" for a year, I call BS. What’s particularly telling is that these crippling January issues — which absolutely qualify as network instability — haven’t been classified as "incidents" by Solana’s own status team.

A year without labeled outages? Maybe. A year without problems? Not even close.