Input Output CEO Charles Hoskinson said the transient nature of the Cardano node anomaly makes it challenging to pin down the exact cause.

However, he added that the network handled the outage precisely as designed. Further, he praised the IO staff and Stake Pool Operators (SPOs) for rallying together to offset the issue.

On Jan. 22, 50% of Cardano nodes suffered “a transient anomaly,” causing them to disconnect and then restart.

This affected block production for two to five minutes, causing the chain to fall out of sync briefly as the affected nodes restarted. There was a short period of network degradation, but this recovered through what Hoskinson called “self-healing.”