Avalanche Blockchain Hit By Brief 5-Hour Outage Caused by Validator Communication Issue
• Avalanche layer-1 blockchain suffered 5-hour network outage, blocking acceptance of new blocks • Issue rooted in validators excessively communicating, saturating bandwidth allocation • Outage resolved after upgrading to AvalancheGo v1.11.1 • Had little impact on AVAX price, down just 1.85% over last 24 hours • Comes after Solana recently had a 5-hour outage, causing exchange withdrawal/deposit suspension