Sui Network Faces Outage, Transactions Halted for Three Hours

The Sui Network mainnet is currently experiencing a significant outage, lasting approximately three hours. The core team is actively working on a solution, but dApps like Slush and SuiScan are unavailable, with transactions being slow or halted.

Last valid transaction recorded at 2:22 p.m. UTC; checkpoint was 234608191.
An hour without checkpoints indicates the blockchain is effectively "stuck," halting new transactions until resolved.
Investigation started 30 minutes post-outage; fix identified after 1.5 hours.

Sui explorer as of Jan. 14, 2026, at 5:36 p.m. UTC | Source: OkLink

Previous Incidents

Second major outage for Sui's mainnet, third incident affecting transactions.
First outage on Nov. 21, 2024, lasted over 2.5 hours due to a bug in congestion control code.
On Dec. 14, 2025, the network faced "degraded consensus" with higher latencies, resolved in about three hours.
Three major exploits in 2025: Typus Finance lost $3 million, CETUS Protocol lost over $220 million, and Nemo protocol was exploited for $2.4 million in USDC.

Sui Mainnet status: 'Consensus outage' as of Jan. 14, 2026 | Source: status.sui.io