VanEck Research Head: Solana Outage Due to BPF Loader Failure

ChainCatcher news, VanEck's head of digital asset research Matthew Sigel stated that the Solana outage was due to a failure in the BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) loader, which is the mechanism for deploying, upgrading, and executing programs on Solana. This may be related to a previous SMID proposal that introduced an interceptor to prevent the use of metadata in BPF, as this metadata is no longer needed. This stems from the 0093 upgrade, which contained some kind of bug. This bug has already been noted on the testnet, and a fix has been created, but it has not yet been implemented due to testing reasons. There is speculation that someone manually triggered this error. As a result, Solana has gone down.