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Sui blockchain is experiencing repeated downtime, compounding the damage from a six-hour outage that struck on Thursday. The back-to-back disruptions raise serious questions about the network's reliability and its readiness to support the decentralised applications and trading activity that have driven SUI's growth narrative.
For a Layer-1 competing against more established chains, consecutive outages are more than a technical embarrassment — they erode developer confidence and give institutional observers a concrete reason to pause. Prolonged or recurring downtime on a proof-of-stake network can also delay block finality, leaving DeFi protocols, bridges, and on-chain order books in a frozen state that exposes users to liquidation risk and settlement uncertainty.
The Sui team has not yet issued a full post-mortem on the Thursday incident, making the recurrence harder to contextualize.
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