Sui Network Outage
Overview
Sui Core team reported a network stall on mainnet, causing transaction processing to pause.
Sui mainnet stalled, halting transactions. Team investigating, no cause disclosed yet.
Resolution · May 28, 2026, 12:00 AM
Sui experienced three outages over two days totaling over 15 hours due to bugs in software update 1.72.
Sources & Timeline
- NewCointelegraph95%
The network halted due to a crash bug in the gas charging logic introduced by update 1.72.
May 29, 2026, 4:08 AMRead on Bytewit → - NewCoinDesk85%
Socket researchers identified 34 malicious packages with payloads that exfiltrate SSH keys, cloud tokens, and wallet files from developer machines.
May 29, 2026, 8:19 AMRead on Bytewit → - NewDecrypt95%
The Sui network stalled again on Friday after a bug introduced in the 1.72 release caused a previous outage on Thursday.
May 29, 2026, 2:42 PMRead on Bytewit → - NewCoinDesk90%
Sui Core team reported a network stall on mainnet, causing transaction processing to pause.
May 28, 2026, 4:11 PMRead on Bytewit → - ResolvedCointelegraph90%
Crash bugs in gas charging and randomness-state logic caused network halts.
Jun 1, 2026, 6:48 AMRead on Bytewit → - Post-mortemCoinDesk90%
A new address-balance feature in v1.72 exposed an edge case that caused validators to crash on transaction reversion.
Jun 1, 2026, 5:38 AMRead on Bytewit → - NewDecrypt95%
The Sui mainnet stopped processing transactions, causing a network outage during early morning trading hours.
May 28, 2026, 8:09 PMRead on Bytewit → - NewCointelegraph90%
The 1.72 release's address balances and gas charging logic interaction caused the stall.
May 29, 2026, 6:46 PMRead on Bytewit →
