On March 23, a failure occurred in the Polygon zkEVM second-level Ethereum network, as a result of which the blockchain, launched about a year ago, stopped for more than 10 hours.
Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta faced an issue with its sequencer due to an L1 reorg. We are working on fully resolving the issue and will follow up with a detailed post-mortem.
This only impacts Polygon zkEVM (which is the only rollup) and does not impact Polygon PoS, Polygon CDK,…
—Polygon | Aggregated (@0xPolygon) March 23, 2024
Fixing the glitch required activation of emergency mode, which allowed the developers to apply the necessary fixes to the system to resume interaction with the first level.
Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta has resumed operations.
The Emergency Council for Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta activated the emergency state to allow the Polygon zkEVM Core Team to apply a necessary fix to the system, allowing L1 settlement of Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta to resume. Upon…
—Polygon | Aggregated (@0xPolygon) March 25, 2024
The multi-hour blockchain delay only affected the Polygon zkEVM and did not affect the main Polygon PoS network or any others deployed using the Polygon CDK.
After the incident ended, the emergency mode was turned off. This means that all protocol updates will be activated with a standard 10-day delay, the team recalled. She will present the results of her investigation into the failure this week.
Polygon zkEVM launched on March 27, 2023 with the first symbolic transaction of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The network uses a rollup architecture with zero-knowledge proof technology.
Polygon has great tech. We shouldn't let a sequencer failure sour any reputation. It happens, bugs happen, it's early tech.
I'm sure Fuel will experience similar events in our development, it's just an unfortunate but necessary part of the learning process.
All the power to…
— nick.sway (@IAmNickDodson) March 24, 2024
He admitted that their modular Fuel blockchain based on Optimistic Rollups may well encounter similar problems. The launch of the mainnet is expected in the third quarter.
Source: Cryptocurrency
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