Solana Foundation’s Remote Procedure Call (RPC) endpoints went offline on January 8th as a result of a bug in the Validator client’s test release 1.14.
According to an update by Solana Status, the bug affected those nodes that adopted the latest test release and advised those operating on the node to change over to 1.13. RPC endpoints are essentially the nodes that connect decentralized applications (DApps) and wallets to the blockchain.
“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. Block production has not been impacted and the Solana network has not been impacted.”
“The Solana Foundation’s RPCs are a severely rate-limited service that’s not meant for anything production-grade, just testing and casual use. Solana Foundation’s RPC infra is intentionally on the bleeding edge of release candidates to do just this – find bugs in low-impact situations.”