zkSync Era Follows Arbitrum in Facing Block Production Halt
Just a day after Arbitrum encountered technical issues, zkSync Era has become the next network to face problems and is unable to produce new blocks.
zkSync Era Follows Arbitrum in Facing Block Production Halt
Update:
In their latest announcement, zkSync Developers stated that transactions are still being processed and urged users to remain patient. The Sequencers and Provers are operating normally. The current issue has been identified as latency in the operation of nodes.
👀 We're actively monitoring a high burst of transactions on zkSync Era Mainnet
— ZKsync Developers (∎, ∆) (@zkSyncDevs) December 16, 2023
💪 Sequencer and Prover are keeping up and working as intended
👉 Users might experience lagging on zkSync partner nodes
➡️ Transactions are being processed, please be patient
👇Follow for updates
Anthony Rose, a zkSync contributor, confirmed that Inscriptions are causing a surge in transaction processing pressure on the network. This incident has resulted in users being unable to send transactions for up to 15 minutes.
Original Article:
A spokesperson from zkSync Developers confirmed that Era network is experiencing issues due to a sudden increase in transaction volumes.
Inscriptions are running wild on @zksync – despite the unprecedented constant load close to ~150 TPS, the network performs its duties.
— Anthony Rose (∎, ∆) (@anthonykrose) December 16, 2023
It's not a perfectly smooth ride. The database capacity required a live upgrade, which affected users ability to submit txs for ~15 mins.…
Specifically, nodes are showing signs of slowing down, and users may experience limitations in transaction submissions through APIs. The team is investigating the cause to resolve the issue.
Transaction history monitoring data shows that the last batch of transactions was packaged and processed an hour ago.
👀 We're actively monitoring a high burst of transactions on zkSync Era Mainnet
— ZKsync Developers (∎, ∆) (@zkSyncDevs) December 16, 2023
💪 Sequencer and Prover are keeping up and working as intended
👉 Users might experience lagging on zkSync partner nodes
➡️ Transactions are being processed, please be patient
👇Follow for updates
Read more: zkSync Era
This incident comes just a day after Arbitrum, another Layer-2 solution, temporarily halted the creation of new blocks.
It's likely that zkSync Era has also fallen victim to Inscriptions, the trend where NFT data is directly inscribed into blocks, causing numerous networks to become overloaded.
Read more: The Ordinals Inscription movement spreading across blockchains after a single sentence from Elon Musk
On-chain data indicates that before Arbitrum encountered issues on the evening of December 15th, over 90% of network transactions were related to Inscriptions activities.
