Zilliqa developers restarted the project’s network after a bug in the smart contracts. Due to a segmentation fault, the platform was not processing blocks.
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Dear everyone,
The mainnet recovery of v8.1.2 has been completed (30 July 2022, 20:00 UTC).
For insight what happened, please see https://t.co/gMJutMaERn
We apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Sincerely,
The Zilliqa Team— Zilliqa (@zilliqa) July 30, 2022
The Zilliqa network stopped generating blocks on July 29. According to a statement, the outage was caused by a malfunction in one of the functions of the Scilla language on which the project is built. The error led to the server process in the mining nodes to terminate.
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«Scilla depends on the cryptographic library secp256k1. After its deployment, a segmentation fault occurred when one of the parameters fell outside the allowed range», — the developers explained.
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The team released a new software version that uses the corrected secp256k1 build. The update was tested on a testnet — the platform correctly handles parameters outside the range.
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Zilliqa was launched in 2017. The project gained prominence for its early implementation of the sharding — a method of horizontal data partitioning that increases blockchain throughput.
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Earlier in July 2022, the Celo blockchain platform paused operations amid the deployment of Uniswap smart contracts on the network.
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