On April 5, the second-layer Ethereum network StarkNet did not produce new blocks for about four hours.
According to Starkscana pause occurred between #630,028 and #630,029.
At the time of writing on page There is no information about the incident on StarkNet status. The latest marks refer to March 13, when the blockchain slowed down for 27 minutes due to the activation of the Dencun hard fork on the Ethereum mainnet.
Problems with transaction processing were noticed by users and services. For example, the Baby Laika platform warned customers about delays in withdrawals.
📢 STARKNET NETWORK INTERRUPTION 📢
Due to a prolonged interruption in block creation on the Starknet network—exceeding two hours—we regret to inform you that the Withdraw feature will experience a delay. Rest assured, our team is actively working to resolve this issue. We… pic.twitter.com/Whnrbv1EGO
— Baby Laika (@BabyLaikaX) April 5, 2024
It took several hours for the StarkNet team to confirm the failure, allegedly caused by a rounding error.
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Earlier today, we identified a rounding error bug that led to a reorg of blocks. Starknet's block production continued as usual. However, the reorg caused the transaction backlog to reach full capacity. Consequently, there were a few minutes during which new transactions…
— Starknet 🦇🔊 (@Starknet) April 5, 2024
The developers promised to provide detailed information later.
According to Starknet Monitor, The network interblock interval returned to normal values in the range of three to six minutes.
In March, StarkWare, the company behind StarkNet, unveiled plans to further improve network performance, including introducing parallelization.
Source: Cryptocurrency
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