Unpopular opinion: an outage doesn’t mean a chain is dead.
If a network has real usage, things break sometimes. That’s part of scaling.
Coming from Solana, we’ve lived through outages and I know the feeling.
I wouldn’t be concerned at all, better to deal with these issues now than later, when the network has 100x more users
No one is justifying outages, simply providing realistic context.
A constantly evolving, non-static codebase being completely free of bugs is unrealistic. Major platforms like GCP, Cloudflare, AWS, and nearly every large-scale system encounter occasional issues despite enormous resources and decades of experience.
One effective way to substantially reduce (though not eliminate) outages is to significantly slow the pace of development and iteration. Ethereum exemplifies this approach: by prioritizing caution at the expense of slower innovation and adaptation.
By contrast, Sui is progressing at a speed unmatched by any other Layer 1 blockchain. This unprecedented rate of advancement in performance, features, scalability, and ecosystem growth necessarily involves higher short-term risk of incidents. Yet it is precisely this aggressive pace that is driving Sui’s rapid differentiation and adoption in the space.
What matters most is the team’s ability to identify, resolve, and learn from them and Sui has consistently demonstrated strong responsiveness in addressing issues
@matteodotsui@SuiNetwork@Mysten_Labs Hey Man love to see the positivity everyone is being negative and not helping the situation at all.
Criticism is valid, panic isn’t.
Networks mature by breaking and improving. Let’s hold teams accountable and keep perspective. Both can be true.
My honest 2 cents on yesterday:
@SuiNetwork being down for 5 hours is objectively bad. It hurts users, PR, and can scare off serious capital. No sugarcoating on that.
However, software isn’t perfect and shit happens, especially when you ship as much and as fast as @Mysten_Labs does
I’m still bullish on Sui. Short-term downtime doesn’t really change anything (as long as we learn from it)
What matters most to me in 2026 is ecosystem growth:
Sticky, innovative, high-quality apps
That’s what Sui has been missing and what imo will decide its future