Solana's network, one of Ethereum's biggest competitors, fell for seven hours after its main bet fell out of line, according to Austin Federa, head of communications at Solana Labs.

According to "You Today", the network has returned to online mode, and successfully completed the reboot of the group at 3:00 am GMT.

Solana suffered outages due to the huge number of incoming transactions which led to a network blockage, as the network processed 100 gigabytes of data per second.

Candy Machine, an app designed to mint non-replaceable tokens, was the main reason behind the long downtime.

Some users criticized Solana for censoring NFT bots that kept the network down for seven hours.

Solana emerged as one of the best Ethereum competitors in 2021, due to its high throughput and extremely low fees.