Arbitrum network goes offline for at least 2 hours

Ethereum layer-2 community Arbitrum One has skilled a partial outage, in line with an alert on the community’s official standing web site.

The sequencer “stalled” at 10:29 am ET (13:29 UTC) throughout a “vital surge in community visitors,” in line with the alert. Arbitrum’s block explorer, Arbiscan, reveals that some blocks are being produced. Nonetheless, they seem like solely processing two transactions in every block.

Some customers took to X (Twitter) to speculate about whether or not the outage was attributable to inscriptions, as this could clarify the small variety of transactions in every block. Nonetheless, this has not been confirmed by the staff. Inscriptions are a sort of knowledge format utilized in some blockchain networks and are sometimes used to hold collectible photos. Inscriptions originated on Bitcoin however have not too long ago been used on Arbitrum due to the MemeOrdi protocol.

On Arbitrum’s official Discord server, neighborhood admin Ricardo Gordon introduced that the staff is “working to resolve this as rapidly as doable and can present a autopsy quickly.”

This can be a growing story, and additional info will likely be added because it turns into obtainable.