Key Takeaways
- Three Sui mainnet halts occurred between May 28-29, all traced to v1.72 upgrade.
- Gas-charging bug caused halts 1 and 2, triggered by new Address Balances feature.
- Emergency patch carried known risk, which materialized Friday morning as halt 2.
- Third halt caused by randomness state not saving to disk during validator restart.
One Upgrade, Two Bugs, Three Outages
The Sui mainnet went down three times in 48 hours last week, and the Sui Foundation has now published a detailed explanation of how it happened. The short version is that a single upgrade, version 1.72, introduced a new feature that interacted badly with existing


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