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The high throughput layer-1 blockchain, called Sui, is now online after a long outage that partially paralyzed the network. The event halted block creation almost six hours, halting transactions and freezing over $1 billion in onchain value.

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Sui confirmed that the network is now fully operational, with transactions flowing normally across the ecosystem. In a statement shared on X, the team advised users still facing issues to refresh their applications or browser sessions and pointed to its public status page for ongoing updates.

The radix had started the day before that when the network had gone through an ultimately described as a consensus-related stall. No new blocks were completed during this time, which practically did not allow users to send transactions, interact with DeFi protocols, and transfer assets on-chain.

The Sui status dashboard reported updates of core developers and validators to deploy a fix. After block producers added the patch, block production was restored, restoring the network after about five hours and fifty minutes.

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The industry started to be publicly recognized as a problem soon after engineers started to examine anomalies of block production. During the next few hours, Sui and his core staff tried to diagnose and address the issue together with the validators.

The network was down long enough by the time of the fix, to cause some worry among developers and users used to the low-latency design offered by Sui. After restore, Sui made it clear that regular transaction processing was back working and there was nothing required of a user that was not a refresh of interfaces.

The foundation said that a more comprehensive post-mortem would be released in the next few days. The technical root cause, remediation steps used, and further clarification on whether further safeguard will be presented should be explained in that review.

Though outages are not unique to newer and faster-rising blockchains, repeat occurrences are more likely to be viewed with increased attention. Sui has differentiated itself as a next-generation offering that is oriented towards parallel execution of transactions and horizontal scaling, which is algorithmically oriented towards high throughput and low fees.

Nevertheless, these system design options also add complexity to systems. With increased volume of transactions, it becomes difficult to maintain a consistent consensus particularly when it is being used at its peak.

According to DeFi analytics sites, Sui had a total value locked of slightly above $1 billion at the moment of the outage. This number had fallen at the end of 2024 but has been indicating an improvement in the beginning of 2026.

Market reaction was not very strong although it was disrupted by the operational disruption. The token price of SUI dropped slightly by about 4% on receiving confirmation of the incident prior to regaining the gains and again closed close to the level before the incident. The absence of acute volatility indicates that the traders considered the event as a technical hustle and not a structural problem.

This reaction differs with reference to the previous cycles wherein long outages tended to precipitate steep sell offs. The less vigorous response can be seen as increasing tolerance of the market to short-term dislocations, as long as recovery is fast and open.

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