Polygon, a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum, has announced that its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) is currently facing downtime due to an issue with its blockchain sequencer.
In a recent post on X, Polygon reassured its two million followers that the issue is isolated to the zkEVM and does not affect any other chains deployed using the Polygon chain development kit (CDK).
Polygon explained that the problem lies with the blockchain sequencer, which is responsible for organizing and combining transactions into batches before relaying them to the Polygon zkEVM smart contract on Ethereum’s main network.
The platform emphasized that it is actively working to resolve the issue and promised to provide a comprehensive “post-mortem” statement once the matter is resolved.
Polygon posted about the zkEVM downtime on X. Source: Polygon
Some users on X were questioning why the crypto community has remained silent about the unexpected and prolonged network downtime.
One user, 0xngmi, asked their 101,900 followers, “why is nobody talking about how Polygon zkevm has been down for 10 hours and is still down?”
Another user, Mirza.inj, pointed out to their 14,800 followers that “Polygon zkEVM was down for over 10 hours, and no one said anything.”
This incident comes just a month after the Solana network experienced a significant outage. On February 6, Cointelegraph reported that block production on the Solana network stopped for over five hours before validators restarted the network. Since January 2022, Solana has experienced several major outages.
In March 2023, Polygon launched the zkEVM to its mainnet beta, aiming to enable developers to deploy smart contracts with increased finality and lower costs. Cointelegraph previously reported that the zkEVM replicates the transaction execution environment of Ethereum’s mainnet.
Polygon claims that the open-source zkEVM allows decentralized applications to scale through transaction batching, resulting in improved performance.
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