Director of Digital Asset Research at VanEck: Solana network suspended block production on Tuesday due to a BPF loader failure

On February 7th, Matthew Sigel, the head of digital asset research at VanEck, stated on X platform that the Solana network's block production was temporarily halted on Tuesday due to a malfunction in the BPF (Berkley Packet Filter) loading program, which is the mechanism for deploying, upgrading, and executing programs on Solana. This may be related to the previous SMID (Solana Improvement Proposal) proposal, which added an interceptor to prevent the use of metadata in BPF because this metadata is no longer needed. The 0093 upgrade version has a bug that was noticed and fixed on the testnet, but the test has not yet been implemented. Some speculate that someone manually triggered this bug, resulting in the Solana network pausing block production.