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03/26/2023

Avalanche Faces "Freeze" Again Within a Week

Avalanche has once again encountered issues with its C-Chain, halting block production on the evening of March 26. This marks the second disruption of its kind in the past seven days. On March 26, Wu Blockchain reported that Avalanche's C-Chain faced another outage, stopping block production from 5:30 PM (VN time). Data from the block explorer SnowTrace confirmed this issue. Avalanche C chain stops producing blocks again for over 50 minutes. https://t.co/SuQAjgbouc https://t.co/Nxvhjhg3ml — W

Avalanche Faces "Freeze" Again Within a Week

Avalanche has once again encountered issues with its C-Chain, halting block production on the evening of March 26. This marks the second disruption of its kind in the past seven days.

On March 26, Wu Blockchain reported that Avalanche's C-Chain faced another outage, stopping block production from 5:30 PM (VN time). Data from the block explorer SnowTrace confirmed this issue.

Shortly thereafter, the account @kasperbaobei commented on Wu Blockchain's announcement, noting that the outage affected several validators and that a v1.9.16 patch had been released to address the problem.

Avalanche and Ava Labs have yet to provide an official update on the situation, and co-founder Kevin Sekniqi's account appears to be inactive.

In the comments section, many expressed concern over the fact that this is the second such incident within a week. Some speculated that Avalanche might soon break Solana's record for "freezes." Historically, few blockchains have matched Solana and Polygon's track records for disruptions.

See Also: Avalanche Faces C-Chain Issue, Stops Block Production for Nearly 3 Hours

As of now, Avalanche has resumed block production and transaction processing normally. The price of AVAX has shown minimal volatility during the blockchain's downtime.

1-hour chart of AVAX/USDT on Binance, screenshot taken at 8:50 AM on March 27, 2023.