{"id":11926,"date":"2024-03-25T10:13:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T08:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/polygon-zkevm-resumes-operations-after-outage\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T10:13:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T08:13:25","slug":"polygon-zkevm-resumes-operations-after-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/polygon-zkevm-resumes-operations-after-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygon zkEVM Resumes Operations After Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 23, the Ethereum Layer 2 network Polygon zkEVM experienced a disruption, causing the blockchain, launched about a year ago, to halt for over 10 hours.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Polygon zkEVM Mainnnet Beta faced an issue with its sequencer due to an L1 reorg. We are working on fully resolving the issue and will follow up with a detailed post-mortem.<\/p>\n<p>This only impacts Polygon zkEVM (which is the only rollup) and does not impact Polygon PoS, Polygon CDK,\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Polygon | Aggregated (@0xPolygon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygon\/status\/1771671172834283539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta encountered a sequencer issue due to an L1 reorganization,\u201d the team reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Resolving the issue required activating an emergency mode, allowing developers to implement necessary fixes to resume interaction with the first layer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta has resumed operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Emergency Council for Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta activated the emergency state to allow the Polygon zkEVM Core Team to apply a necessary fix to the system, allowing L1 settlement of Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta to resume. Upon\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Polygon | Aggregated (@0xPolygon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygon\/status\/1772069585602195586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The prolonged blockchain delay affected only Polygon zkEVM and did not impact the main Polygon PoS network or any others deployed using Polygon CDK.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, the emergency mode was deactivated. This means all protocol updates will activate with the usual 10-day delay, the team noted. They plan to present the results of the incident investigation this week.<\/p>\n<p>Polygon zkEVM was launched on March 27, 2023, with the first symbolic transaction by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The network employs a rollup architecture with zero-knowledge proof technology.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Polygon has great tech. We shouldn\u2019t let a sequencer failure sour any reputation. It happens, bugs happen, it\u2019s early tech.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure Fuel will experience similar events in our development, it\u2019s just an unfortunate but necessary part of the learning process.<\/p>\n<p>All the power to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 nick.sway (@IAmNickDodson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAmNickDodson\/status\/1771937195089125455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cPolygon has great solutions. We shouldn\u2019t let a sequencer failure tarnish any reputation. It happens, bugs happen, it\u2019s early technology,\u201d commented Nick Dodson, CEO and co-founder of Fuel Labs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He suggested that their modular blockchain Fuel, based on Optimistic Rollups, might face similar issues. The mainnet launch is <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/fuel-introduces-rollup-os-ahead-of-mainnet-launch\">expected<\/a> in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Polygon Labs <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/polygon-labs-to-lay-off-60-employees\">laid off 19% of its team<\/a>. The company stated this was not due to financial difficulties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 23, the Ethereum Layer 2 network Polygon zkEVM experienced a disruption, causing the blockchain, launched about a year ago, to halt for over 10 hours. Polygon zkEVM Mainnnet Beta faced an issue with its sequencer due to an L1 reorg. We are working on fully resolving the issue and will follow up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1301,1179,1264],"class_list":["post-11926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities","tag-layer-2-solutions","tag-polygon-matic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}