{"id":65124,"date":"2022-07-31T10:06:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T07:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65124"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:15:05","slug":"zilliqa-team-restarts-network-after-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/zilliqa-team-restarts-network-after-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Zilliqa team restarts network after outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zilliqa developers restarted the project&#8217;s network after a bug in the smart contracts. Due to a <a href=\\\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Segmentation_fault\\\">segmentation fault<\/a>, the platform was not processing blocks.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Dear everyone,<\/p>\n<p>The mainnet recovery of v8.1.2 has been completed (30 July 2022, 20:00 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>For insight what happened, please see <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/gMJutMaERn\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/gMJutMaERn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We apologize for the inconvenience caused.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>The Zilliqa Team<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zilliqa (@zilliqa) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zilliqa\/status\/1553479163222396930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">July 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The Zilliqa network <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zilliqa\/status\/1553268708608712704?s=20&#038;t=c0WVc_F30zz01tbGxCMIJQ\\\">stopped<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u00abScilla depends on the cryptographic library <a href=\\\"https:\/\/en.bitcoin.it\/wiki\/Secp256k1\\\">secp256k1<\/a>. After its deployment, a segmentation fault occurred when one of the parameters fell outside the allowed range\u00bb, \u2014 the developers explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The team released a new software version that uses the corrected secp256k1 build. The update was tested on a testnet \u2014 the platform correctly handles parameters outside the range.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Zilliqa was launched in 2017. The project gained prominence for its early implementation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-sharding\">sharding<\/a> \u2014 a method of horizontal data partitioning that increases blockchain throughput.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in July 2022, the Celo blockchain platform <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/celo-validators-restart-blockchain-after-extended-outage\">paused operations<\/a> amid the deployment of Uniswap smart contracts on the network.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zilliqa developers restarted the project&#8217;s network after a bug in the smart contracts. 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