Arbitrum network due to the sequence of the sequence downtime-

The Arbitrum network, an Ethereum L2 (Layer 2) Rollup, had some difficulties that led to a complete stopping of blocks and confirmation of transactions. According to reports from the Arbitrum team, this incident had to do with his sequence downtime, a special knot that managed the order of the transactions and made the network unusable for about seven hours.

Arbitrum stands for 7 hours

The network of Arbitrum, an optimistic scaling roller for the Ethereum network, was fully stopped on January 9, so that users could not carry out transactions for about seven hours. The Arbitrum team informed users that the difficulties were caused by problems with their main squad, in which a hardware error occurred that led to the network arrest. According to arbitrum documents , the sequencer is a "specially designed full node, which has only limited powers, the order of transactions".

The Twitter account of the rollup The problem was first made that occurred at the downtimes of the sequencer and that all funds were sure goods.

in a post-mortem contribution, offchain labs that there were also other situations that were also about the situation contributed with which the rollup was confronted, and noticed:

This is not the first time that Arbitrum has problems operating his network. The service was confronted with the same problem in September when the sequencer was again. This resulted in the network out of operation for 45 minutes. At that time offchain labs specified :

The main cause of the downtime was an error that led to the sequencer stuck if it received a very large number of transactions in a short time. The problem was identified and a fix was provided.

While Ethereum focused on scaling with this type of solution, the proposal was still not well received by some users. according to the Delphi Digital losing these L2 solutions "in the past few months, despite the migration of the defi protocols from Ethereum ”.

Nevertheless, arbitrum is the Rollup solution number one in the Ethereum ecosystem in relation to the Total Value Locked (TVL) with Started in Mainset last August. The solution has a total value of over 2.62 billion US dollars data from l2beat, an ethereum l2 statistics service.

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sergio is a cryptocurrency journalist based in Venezuela. He describes himself as late at the game and entered the cryptosphere when the price increase took place in December 2017. With a background in computer technology that lives in Venezuela and is affected by the cryptocurrency boom at the social level, it offers a different view of the crypto success and how it helps the non-banks and under-sector.

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