Polygon’s zkEVM community suffered an outage for 10 hours on March 23, which the workforce attributed to a problem with the blockchains sequencer as a consequence of a Layer 1 chain reorg.
Polygon’s core workforce has mounted the difficulty which resulted within the zkEVM mainnet beta chain being down for over 10 hours on March 23.
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Posted March 25, 2024 at 2:21 am EST.
Ethereum Layer 2 community Polygon’s zero-knowledge Ethereum Digital Machine (zkEVM) chain was down for greater than 10 hours over the weekend, in accordance with data from the block explorer.
The Polygon workforce confirmed the outage in an X post on March. 23, noting that the difficulty was confined to the rollup chain, which has been in its beta model since its launch final yr, with all different chains operating on Polygon’s chain growth package functioning as per regular.
Polygon zkEVM Mainnnet Beta confronted a problem with its sequencer as a consequence of an L1 reorg. We’re engaged on absolutely resolving the difficulty and can observe up with an in depth autopsy.
This solely impacts Polygon zkEVM (which is the one rollup) and doesn’t affect Polygon PoS, Polygon CDK,…
— Polygon | Aggregated (@0xPolygon) March 23, 2024
With a extra detailed autopsy nonetheless to return, the workforce revealed that the foundation reason for the issue was with the block sequencer throughout a Layer 1 chain reorg. The block sequencer is accountable for packaging ordered transactions right into a block. A sequence reorg takes place when validators disagree on probably the most correct model of the blockchain, ensuing within the removing of a weaker duplicate chain.
In an replace on March 24, the workforce stated that the chain’s emergency council had activated the “emergency state” to permit the core workforce to repair the difficulty and permit the zkEVM mainnet beta chain to renew operations.
“Upon finishing this improve, the emergency state was deactivated, that means any additional updates to the system are topic to a 10-day timelock earlier than taking impact,” said the workforce.
Polygon’s zkEVM was the primary absolutely EVM suitable chain to hit the mainnet when it was launched, however data from The Block reveals that it has failed to realize the identical quantity of traction as a few of its rival layer 2 zk rollup chains when it comes to transaction exercise. Nonetheless, Polygon’s Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chain noticed its transactions enhance 93% within the newest quarter, with Whole Worth Locked (TVL) rising to $1.1 billion, in accordance with data from Messari.
“Polygon has nice tech. We shouldn’t let a sequencer failure bitter any fame. It occurs, bugs occur, it’s early tech,” commented Gasoline Community CEO Nick Dodson on X.
