{"id":22359,"date":"2024-11-21T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=22359"},"modified":"2024-11-21T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T12:00:09","slug":"sui-price-crashes-10-as-blockchain-goes-dark-halting-block-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=22359","title":{"rendered":"SUI Price Crashes 10% As Blockchain Goes Dark, Halting Block Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sui network has ceased block production for over two hours, leading to a sharp decline in the token\u2019s price. Data from suivision and suiscan indicate that block generation stopped at 09:15 UTC today, and the network has yet to resume normal operations. This marks the first major outage for the project, a blockchain praised as \u201cSolana killer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

SUI Price Crashes Following Network Outage<\/h2>\n

Members of the community have suggested that issues with validators might be the cause of the disruption. Validators, critical for processing transactions and maintaining the blockchain\u2019s integrity, appear to be experiencing problems.<\/p>\n

The official status page, status.sui.io, acknowledges the issue, stating that they are \u201ccontinuing to investigate\u201d and confirming that \u201cvalidators are down.\u201d Despite these updates, the development team has not released an official statement detailing the root cause or providing a timeline for resolution.<\/p>\n

Blockchain security firm PeckShieldAlert confirmed the disruption, noting that the \u201cSui blockchain network appears to be experiencing delays, with reports indicating that the latest block has produced over an hour ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

#PeckShieldAlert<\/a> #Sui<\/a> blockchain network appears to be experiencing delays, with reports indicating that the latest block was produced over an hour ago pic.twitter.com\/KHFpmMqKxB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) November 21, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

The incident has sparked discussions on social media, with several crypto community members drawing parallels between Sui\u2019s current situation and Solana\u2019s past network outages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crypto analyst Quinten Francois commented<\/a>, \u201cSUI has been down for 55 min, with no blocks produced during this period. SOL 2.0?\u201d Similarly, WantCoinNews expressed interest in how the Sui community and developers will handle the downtime, stating that their response could \u201ceither destroy or strengthen the trust in the chain.\u201d They added a personal note, saying, \u201cLet me just ignore this Solana type FUD and look for entries. Minimum $5.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben Armstrong, known as BitBoy, weighed in<\/a> on the matter: \u201cIt is with great pause, I declare SUI officially the next SOL. How many times do I have to say it? Can\u2019t wait to hear from the team on this one. Solana has taught us that it\u2019s way better for a blockchain to be overwhelmed than not used.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the news of the outage, the token\u2019s price dropped by 7%. Over the last 24 hours, the SUI price has fallen by nearly 10%, reflecting investor concerns over the network\u2019s reliability.<\/p>\n

Despite this setback, SUI remains one of the few altcoins to have reached<\/a> a new all-time high in the current market cycle. The price dip brings the token to a critical support level at the 1.618 Fibonacci extension of $3.24. If this support holds, SUI could be poised for another upward movement, potentially targeting the 2.618 Fibonacci extension level at $4.97.<\/p>\n

At press time, SUI traded at $3.39.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sui network has ceased block production for over two hours, leading to a sharp decline in the token\u2019s price. Data from suivision and suiscan indicate that block generation stopped at 09:15 UTC today, and the network has yet to resume normal operations. This marks the first major outage for the project, a blockchain praised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}