Edge routers there read it as locally originated and preferred it over their real one, then passed it to the data center core, which rejected it as invalid. Twelve sites in London, Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, Singapore and Tokyo were left with nothing valid to forward to. North America was untouched. Engineers found the fault within ten minutes and service returned at 04:16:15 UTC.
That is already above the ceiling meant to prevent this. The Solana Foundation's delegation program caps any one autonomous system at 25% of network stake. AS20326 sits at 27.34%.
80 million SOL sat and waitedMarinade found that 59 validators holding 80.2 million SOL came back inside the same narrow window in Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Tokyo, having waited for the routing to reconverge rather than switching to anything else. Helius, the second-largest validator on Solana, was down fore the full 33 minutes. Of 74 operators Marinade could measure, three “came back clean”: Laine and Cogent Crypto, both run by Sol Strategies, and Lion3d.
The exposure also runs wider than one provider, with a further 14.1 million SOL going offline in the same minutes across latitude.sh, Limestone, Butterfly Research and Allnodes, which Marinade said it could not explain from the data, and which suggests counting stake by hosting provider understates what fails together.
