<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) endpoints run by the Solana Foundation are currently unavailable. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The RPC endpoints — nodes which some apps can use to connect to the blockchain — went offline because of a bug in Solana Validator client's test release 1.14.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Mainnet beta Explorer and Solana Foundation Public RPC endpoints are currently offline as RPC node software is upgraded, following a bug in test release 1.14," a tweet from Solana Status</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/SolanaStatus/status/1611952767576178690"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The tweet clarified that the incident did not impact Solana’s ability to produce new blocks — unlike past <a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/174182/solana-back-online-following-latest-network-outage">outages</a> that froze block production for hours.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the foundation's RPC endpoints being offline, private RPCs offered by firms including Triton, QuickNode and Alchemy remained online and could be used. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"This only impacts the ones run by the Solana Foundation. Plenty of private providers are operating just fine," <a href="https://twitter.com/Austin_Federa/status/1611955713160482819">said</a> Austin Federa, head of strategy and communications at Solana Foundation. Federa <a href="https://twitter.com/Austin_Federa/status/1612138829477019648?s=20">added</a> that the foundation runs a small portion of the network's RPC infrastructure for testing and casual use.<br /> </span></p> <p><em>This story has been updated with additional information.</em></p><br /><span class="copyright"><p>© 2023 The Block Crypto, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This article is provided for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.</p> </span>