Arbitrum network suffers minor outage due to hardware failure

The Ethereum furniture 2 web Arbitrum has suffered its 2nd outage successful little than 5 months pursuing a hardware failure.

Arbitrum is backmost online astatine the clip of penning but the squad did study immoderate downtime during the precocious hours of Jan. 9. The timing of the tweets suggests that the web was down for astir 7 hours.

At the time, the Offchain Labs level reported that it was experiencing immoderate issues with the sequencer which prevented transactions from being processed for the period.

We are presently experiencing Sequencer downtime. Thank you for your patience arsenic we enactment to reconstruct it. All funds successful the strategy are safe, and we volition station updates here.

— Arbitrum (@arbitrum) January 9, 2022

On Jan. 10, Arbitrum released a station mortem explaining what had occurred to origin the little outage. “The halfway contented was a hardware nonaccomplishment successful our main Sequencer node,” it revealed, adding that backup Sequencer redundancies that would usually instrumentality power besides failed owed to an ongoing bundle update.

The web is designed to autumn backmost to furniture 1 Ethereum to process transactions erstwhile it has its ain Sequencer issues. However, it stated that efforts were made to marque definite each transactions were confirmed by the Sequencer earlier going offline. A full of 284 transactions captured by the Sequencer were prevented from being posted to the Ethereum chain.

This was a precise insignificant outage successful the expansive strategy of things but the squad did punctual users that the web is inactive fundamentally successful beta.

“The Arbitrum web is inactive successful beta, and we volition support this moniker arsenic agelong arsenic determination are points of centralization that inactive beryllium successful the system.”

The squad concluded that it was moving connected further decentralizing the web with a “twofold way of minimizing Sequencer downtime” that volition beryllium deployed successful the coming weeks and months.

In mid-September, Arbitrum suffered a akin Sequencer outage erstwhile a bug caused the strategy to get stuck aft a ample batch of transactions was executed implicit a abbreviated clip frame.

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Arbitrum is an Ethereum furniture 2 web utilizing Optimistic rollups to batch transactions for faster and cheaper processing. It was launched arsenic Arbitrum One successful aboriginal September pursuing a monolithic $120 cardinal backing round.

According to furniture 2 information platform L2beat, Arbitrum is the astir fashionable furniture 2 web astatine the infinitesimal with a full worth locked of $2.57 cardinal giving it a L2 marketplace stock of 47%.