The network came within striking distance of the 33.34% threshold that would have frozen transaction finality, reviving old concerns about Solana's resilience. Roughly 28.83% of staked SOL dropped offline on Solana following a routing failure, bringing the network uncomfortably close to the 33.34% mark where transaction finality grinds to a halt. Flip that around, and it means if more than 33.34% of stake goes dark, the network loses the supermajority it needs. At 28.83% offline, Solana was roughly 4.5 percentage points from that cliff. Validators that go offline on Solana don’t face slashing penalties, the punitive mechanism some other proof-of-stake chains use to discourage downtime.