Three Sui mainnet halts in 48 hours traced to an upgrade bug by developers
The post Three Sui mainnet halts in 48 hours traced to an upgrade bug by developers appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A new feature shipped in Sui’s v1.72 release exposed an edge case in the Layer-1 blockchain’s gas-charging logic that halted mainnet three separate times across May 28 and May 29, with each fix either triggering or exposing the next failure, the Sui Foundation said in a post-mortem published Sunday. The first outage began at roughly 7 a.m. PT on Thursday and lasted close to seven hours. According to the foundation, it stemmed from a rare issue in how the network charged gas for transactions paying with a mix of the new address-balance feature and traditional coin objects. The bug caused validators to crash with an underflow error when a transaction was canceled for insufficient funds, but the gas-smashing routine still tried to spend those same funds. Think of a coin object as a digital banknote. A user’s SUI balance isn’t a single number — it’s a stack of distinct “