Solana wallet Phantom down due to ‘major incident’

Phantom Wallet, one of the most popular Solana wallets, is “currently experiencing an uptime incident.”

The official X (formerly Twitter) account for Phantom has encouraged users who “are in urgent need of making a transaction, please ignore simulation errors and try using a dapp.”

The status page describes this as a “Major Incident” with the backend and further notes that the “Backend seems to be down.”

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According to its incident and maintenance history, the backend was last down earlier this month on October 3.

Crunchbase states that Phantom Wallet has raised approximately $118 million from investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm.

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