Repeated downtime raises concerns as the validator crash bug disrupts the network and trading activity
According to the Sui network's official status page, the blockchain is facing a “major outage” as it has stopped processing user transactions. The Sui team explained that the latest stall is related to the fix of the first stall, and a problem that surged at the epoch change.
Frequent outages on Sui's mainnet could undermine investor confidence and challenge its position as a reliable DeFi infrastructure. SUI mainnet resumes normal operations after validator fix.
The Sui token is among the worst performing top 100 crypto assets of the last week in the wake of back-to-back outages.
The network resumed only after more than two-thirds of validator stake upgraded to a fix addressing a crash bug in Sui's 1.72 release.
Sui (SUI) trades between $1.06 and $1.24 in late May 2026, recovering from a winter that took it 79% below its January 2025 high of $5.35. Two specific events on May 9 and 10 drove an 18% jump.
Sui Network said that mainnet activity had resumed after a halt caused by a crash bug in gas charging logic introduced by release 1.72. In its official X update, Sui said activity on mainnet had resumed after the halt.
SUI suffers second outage this year, raising questions about reliability amid growing institutional adoption and CME futures launch.
The Sui blockchain encountered its second significant network disruption of 2026 this Thursday, remaining inaccessible for approximately six hours after a critical software flaw emerged in a recent update. The incident triggered an immediate market reaction, with the SUI token experiencing a sharp decline before partially recovering.
On May 28, the Sui blockchain encountered one of its biggest disruptions to date when block production abruptly stopped, preventing the network from processing transactions for almost seven hours.
The Sui blockchain is back online after a network outage that lasted nearly six hours, caused by a bug in its 1.72 software release.
Sui's repeated network stalls raise fresh questions about the blockchain's long-term reliability.