Solana Survived the Failure, but Exposed Another Form of Centralization

Solana went through one of the most severe tests of its recent infrastructure without the blockchain going down.On August 12, a routing failure associated with TeraSwitch temporarily knocked offline validators responsible for 28.83% of all staked SOL. That figure matters because once more than one-third of the stake stops participating in consensus, the network loses its ability to finalize new transactions.For a brief period, Solana came within just over four percentage points of that thre