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Sui's mainnet has suffered three separate halts, all traced back to bugs introduced during network upgrades — including at least one patch that developers knew carried a risk of triggering a halt before it was deployed. The disclosure raises pointed questions about how the Sui team weighs upgrade velocity against network stability.
For a Layer 1 positioning itself as a high-throughput alternative to Solana and Aptos, repeated halts are a credibility problem. Validators and application developers building on Sui depend on liveness guarantees that three upgrade-induced outages in a single mainnet history undercut. The fact that one fix was shipped with known halt risk suggests the team may have prioritised shipping over caution — a tradeoff that will face scrutiny from institutional partners and DeFi protocols considering Sui as a settlement layer.
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