ZKSync Era Network Embraces Thrilling Block Production Suspension!

Just one day after Arbitrum experienced an outage, zkSync Era became the next network to encounter technical problems and was unable to create new blocks.

Update:

Anthony Rose, a contributor to the development of zkSync, confirmed that Inscriptions were the reason for the surge in transaction processing pressure on the network. This outage prevented users from sending transactions for 15 minutes.

Inscriptions are running wild on @zksync – despite the unprecedented constant load close to ~150 TPS, the network performs its duties.

It's not a perfectly smooth ride. The database capacity required a live upgrade, which affected users ability to submit txs for ~15 mins.…

— Anthony Rose ∎ (@anthonykrose) December 16, 2023

Original article:

Account X from zkSync Developers confirmed that the Era network is experiencing problems due to a sudden surge in transaction volume.

👀 We're actively monitoring a high burst of transactions on zkSync Era Mainnet

💪 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

— zkSync Developers ∎ (@zkSyncDevs) December 16, 2023

Specifically, nodes show signs of slowing down, potentially limiting user proposals via the API. The team is investigating the cause to resolve the issue.

Data from the transaction history tracker shows that the last batch of transactions was packed and processed an hour ago.

The outage occurred just one day after Arbitrum (another Layer-2 solution) temporarily stopped creating new blocks.

It is likely that zkSync Era also became a victim of Inscriptions, a trend of NFTs directly engraving data into blocks, which is a nightmare that causes a number of networks to overload.

Specifically, nodes show signs of slowing down, potentially limiting user proposals via the API. The team is investigating the cause to resolve the issue.

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