🚨 Sui froze for over 3 hours after a serious consensus outage on mainnet
🧊 I’m seeing the Sui mainnet literally stall, with block production stopping and transactions freezing for more than 3 hours, which is one of the worst things that can happen to a Layer 1.
⚠️ The issue was described as a consensus outage, meaning validators were not able to agree and keep the chain producing checkpoints, so the whole network became unusable.
🛠️ Sui’s team acknowledged the problem publicly, saying core devs were actively investigating and working on a fix, while users were warned that dapps and transactions could be delayed or unavailable.
⏱️ The official status page shows the incident timeline clearly, with the team moving through investigating → identified → fix rolling out → monitoring, until the network was fully functional again.
✅ The Foundation later confirmed the validators rolled out the fix and the system returned to normal, but they didn’t immediately give a full technical explanation for the cause.
📉 My takeaway: outages like this don’t just hurt users, they hit trust, and for a chain that’s marketed as high speed and scalable, a multi hour freeze is a major reputation test.