Ethereum L2 Starknet suffers 2nd mainnet outage in 2 months

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Starknet suffered a adjacent three-hour mainnet outage, starring to dilatory artifact accumulation owed to sequencer issues.

Ethereum L2 Starknet suffers 2nd mainnet outage successful 2 months

Ethereum scaling solution Starknet suffered different mainnet outage, causing capitalist concerns implicit the reliability of the blockchain network.

The Starknet layer-2 (L2) blockchain suffered an outage connected Tuesday, affecting the mainnet for 2 hours and 44 minutes, starring to dilatory artifact instauration and stagnating transactions connected the network.

The outage was caused by the network’s sequencer, which, successful blockchain terms, operates similar a postulation controller for onchain transactions, ordering transactions acceptable to beryllium included successful a fixed block.

During Tuesday’s outage, the Starknet sequencer was incapable to admit the “Cairo0 code,” according to information from status.starknet.io

This marked the 2nd “major outage” connected the mainnet wrong 2 months, creating imaginable concerns astir the reliability of Starknet arsenic Ethereum's seventh-largest L2 network, with $548 cardinal successful full worth locked (TVL), according to information from L2beat.com.

During the erstwhile outage connected July 18, the Starknet mainnet was lone affected for 13 minutes by dilatory artifact instauration times and a dilatory gateway.

L2 networks are secondary blockchains built connected apical of the Ethereum mainnet to amended transaction velocity and capableness by processing transactions offchain.

Starknet uses ZK-rollups (specifically STARK proofs) to supply high-throughput and low-cost transactions to standard the Ethereum mainnet.

Starknet is backmost online, “fully operational”

Less than 3 hours into the outage, Starknet was capable to reconstruct afloat functionality, wrote Starknet’s community-member-run X relationship successful a Tuesday post, adding:

“Block accumulation is backmost to normal. Most RPC providers are up-and-running, and the remaining ones volition upgrade shortly.”

“To reconstruct service, transactions submitted betwixt 2:23 americium and 4:36 americium UTC were not processed,” the announcement said, adding that a blockchain reorganization from artifact 1960612 was “committed, representing 1 hr of activity.”

This means that each transactions from that artifact guardant volition request to beryllium resubmitted by users. The announcement added that a “full timeline,” including the basal origin and semipermanent prevention measures, volition beryllium published by the team.

Cointelegraph has approached Starknet to find retired much details astir the web outage.