Moonbeam Faces Outage, Halts Block Production for 4 Hours
Moonbeam (GLMR), a smart contract parachain on Polkadot, recently experienced an outage that halted block production for over 4 hours.
Moonbeam Faces Outage, Halts Block Production for 4 Hours
On the evening of April 5, Moonbeam (GLMR) was reported to have stopped generating new blocks, causing a 4-hour and 13-minute suspension of transaction activity.
Just In: The Polkadot smart contract platform Moonbeam's main network experienced a downtime accident, and no new blocks have been produced for more than one and a half hours. Officials say they are investigating https://t.co/jizMmhScEO
— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) April 5, 2023
At the time, Moonbeam promptly notified the community about the issue and stated that the development team was investigating the cause of the disruption.
By early April 6, Moonbeam reported that they had identified the vulnerability and released an update to patch the issue, version 0.30. Block production resumed as nodes updated to v0.30.0. The project has since confirmed that the system is back to normal operation.
The root cause of the recent Moonbeam blockchain production issue has been identified and the team has deployed a solution in the form of a client upgrade. Moonbeam is now producing blocks.
— Moonbeam Network (@MoonbeamNetwork) April 5, 2023
Block production will continue to ramp up as all nodes update to the latest version,…
In the comments, Moonbeam mentioned that a detailed post explaining the chain of events would be published.
Meanwhile, the price of GLMR remained relatively stable following the news, trading around $0.388.
1H Chart of GLMR/USDT on Binance at 12:10 PM on April 6, 2023
Last week, zkSync Era also faced an outage, stopping block production for 3 hours. Similarly, Avalanche's C-Chain experienced two consecutive network failures due to issues with node software.
Moonbeam is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible project and secured the second parachain slot on Polkadot. In September 2022, this parachain integrated with the LayerZero cross-chain data transfer protocol, having previously integrated Polkadot's XCM.
