The week in crypto: Solana outage, NFT project raises $17 million in minutes, major Cardano update — October 3, 2022

Another Solana outage

Solana, the Ethereum competitor, suffered a 6 hour long outage on Friday. A misconfigured node seems to have been the cause of the incident, which forked the blockchain into two incompatible subnets. All validators had to restart the chain at a commonly agreed block.

The Solana blockchain has suffered a lot of outages since its debut, in particular at the beginning of this…