The Layer-2 Ethereum Polygon scaling solution has not produced a new block for more than 11 hours, and the developers attribute the problem to a technical update on the network.
On March 10 at 4:20 pm UTC, Polygon (MATIC) network developers notified users about the project forum that there will likely be downtime starting at 5:50 pm UTC due to maintenance required on one of the three network layers. A recent update is believed to have caused a bug in the network's ability to achieve consensus.
"We suspect there may be a bug in the update that affected the consensus and caused different Heimdall validators to be on different versions of the chain, thus not reaching 2/3 consensus."
As expected, the court it started around 5:54 pm UTC.
The Polygon team issued a to update at approximately 1:30 am UTC explaining that he was still working on fixing the bug and that a hotfix was implemented to help continue creating blocks. That hotfix does not appear to have gone into effect at the time of this writing.
the team too sure users that all funds and data on the chain are safe.
Polygon users apparently understood that the outage was expected, but by the sixth hour, rumors began to surface among the community. Most users have raised concerns about the length of the outage time.
So uhhhhh... The polygons have been down for 6 hours and counting...
โ King (@0xgodking) March 11, 2022
others have indicated that your cryptocurrency profession or business has been negatively affected by the outage. Twitter user @Miklos211 said:
"I literally can't work because of that, could you send us a time when we can expect the network to be back on?"
The Polygon network consists of three layers Each one fulfills a unique function. Smart contracts run on Ethereum (ETH) and the Bor layer helps produce blocks. The third layer of Heimdall is where the problem lies.
Heimdall is a proof-of-stake assembly (point of sale) nodes that help the network reach a consensus. With the Heimdall problem, Polygon is unable to reach a network consensus.
The last major bug fixed by Polygon put $24 billion in funds at riskbut it was repaired without problems at the end of 2021.
Related: Polygon's focus on building L2 infrastructure outpaces ATH's MATIC 50% drop
In related news, Polygon recently partnered with multi-stream music non-fungible tokens (NFT) TokenTraxx marketplace to support the marketplace in the Polygon ecosystem. TokenTraxx will allow musicians to tokenize their work and sell it as NFTs.
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