The Zilliqa network has had some operational disturbances lately, which have affected the creation of blocks on its mainnet. Though the problem is still being looked into, as of May 10, complete network functionality has been restored.After “temporary disruptions to block production on mainnet,” the Zilliqa team informed the community that the network was back up and running. The infrastructure team is keeping an eye on the network’s stability while attempting to identify the root cause of the recent outages, even after the network’s functioning has been restored.
Following the discovery of a block generation slowness on May 8, the Zilliqa network technical team has been working nonstop for nearly 48 hours in an effort to avert additional disruptions. The Zilliqa technical team found a bug on May 9 at approximately 9:30 am UTC that resulted in a null value being returned “instead of a node’s RLP following a possible invalid database lookup.”
“The team has created internal rehearsal networks to recreate this issue and trial bug fixes, allowing for possible solutions to be tested within an isolated environment before progressing to Testnet and mainnet deployments.”
Together with the release of the Zilliqa version 9.3.4 network upgrade, the team had fixed all functionality by approximately 2:30 pm UTC on May 9. The developers expressed their regret for any inconvenience the update may have caused to users and the Zilliqa community, noting that it will provide “a number of enhancements to EVM compatibility.” But even after the update and patch were implemented, on May 9 at roughly 7:05 PM UTC, there was still another production disruption that affected the Zilliqa mainnet.Now, in order to more accurately identify the problem and deal with the underlying cause of the disturbance, the team improved the debugging procedures.
Technical problems have previously caused production interruptions in the Zilliqa block. The number of daily Zilliqa blockchain transactions dropped by over 50% in December 2023 due to a “interruption to block production,” from nearly 61,000 to 30,906. The community is thanked for their “patience and support during the course of resolving” the issue, and the Zilliqa team is still looking into the root cause of the recent network outages.