Polygon network suffers from extended service outage after upgrade

Layer-2 Ethereum scaling solution Polygon has not produced a caller artifact for implicit 11 hours, with developers attributing the contented to a method upgrade connected the network.

On March 10 astatine 4:20 p.m. UTC, Polygon (MATIC) web developers notified users connected the project’s forum that determination would apt beryllium downtime starting astatine astir 5:50 p.m. UTC owed to attraction required connected 1 of the network’s 3 layers. A caller upgrade is thought to person caused an mistake successful the network’s quality to execute consensus.

“We fishy determination whitethorn person been a bug successful the upgrade which affected statement and caused antithetic Heimdall validators to beryllium connected antithetic versions of the chain, thereby not reaching 2/3 consensus.”

As expected, the outage began astatine astir 5:54 p.m. UTC.

The Polygon squad issued an update astatine astir 1:30 americium UTC explaining that it was inactive moving to hole the mistake and that a hotfix was deployed to assistance proceed making blocks. That hotfix does not look to person taken effect arsenic of the clip of writing.

The squad besides assured users that each funds and information on-chain are safe.

A web outage connected Polygon has lasted for 11 hours.

Polygon users seemingly understood the outage was expected, but by the sixth hour, rumblings began to look among the community. Most users person pointed retired concerns astatine the extended magnitude of clip for the outage. 

So uhhhhh.....Polygons been down for 6 hours and counting....

— King (@0xgodking) March 11, 2022

Others person noted that their assemblage oregon crypto concern has been negatively affected by the outage. Twitter idiosyncratic @Miklos211 said:

“I'm virtually incapable to enactment acknowledgment to that, could you delight nonstop america a clip wherever we tin expect the web to beryllium backmost on?”

The Polygon web consists of 3 layers that each serves a unsocial role. Smart contracts tally connected the Ethereum (ETH) furniture and the Bor furniture helps nutrient blocks. The 3rd Heimdall furniture is wherever the occupation lies.

Heimdall is simply a acceptable of proof-of-stake (PoS) nodes that assistance the web scope consensus. With the Heimdall issue, Polygon cannot scope web consensus.

The past large bug that Polygon fixed enactment $24 cardinal worthy of funds astatine risk, but was patched up without contented astatine the extremity of 2021.

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In related news, Polygon precocious partnered with the multichain euphony nonfungible tokens (NFT) marketplace TokenTraxx to enactment the marketplace successful the Polygon ecosystem. TokenTraxx volition let musicians to tokenize their enactment and merchantability it arsenic NFTs.