Ethereum Layer-2 Protocol Starknet Sheds Light On What Caused 4-Hour Block Outage
An error within Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Starknet caused a four-hour block outage on April 4, the protocol team revealed in an April 5 statement on X.
According to the statement, Starknet discovered a “rounding error bug that led to the reorg of blocks” causing the transaction backlog to hit full capacity.
“Consequently, there were a few minutes during which new transactions could not be accepted for processing and were therefore rejected,” the statement continued, revealing that “some transactions were reverted due to changing parameters (e.g. timestamps).”
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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…
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