consensusfailure

$SUI published the post-mortem on its January 15 mainnet stall, and the technical explanation is more interesting than I expected. The six-hour freeze wasn't congestion, wasn't an attack—it was a consensus edge-case triggered during garbage collection that created validator divergence.

The network did what it was designed to do: stopped instead of finalizing inconsistent state. Over $1 billion in TVL was locked, but $SUI barely moved. That's the second outage in 14 months, though.

The team's rolling out faster detection tools and expanded consensus testing, but what's clear is the old reliability vs. performance tension.

High-throughput chains walk a tightrope—pushing speed means tolerating edge cases that legacy systems never encounter. The calm market reaction suggests traders are viewing this as a technical hiccup rather than a structural crack, at least for now.

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