Polygon, a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum, has announced that its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) is currently experiencing downtime due to an issue with its blockchain sequencer.
In a recent post on X, Polygon assured its two million followers that the issue is limited to the zkEVM and does not affect any other chains deployed using the Polygon chain development kit (CDK).
Polygon clarified 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 fully resolve the issue and promised to release a detailed statement once the matter is resolved.
Polygon posted on X about the zkEVM downtime. Source:
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Some users on X have been speculating about the lack of discussion within the crypto community regarding the prolonged network downtime. One user named 0xngmi, with 101,900 followers, questioned, “why is nobody talking about how Polygon zkevm has been down for 10h and is still down?”
Meanwhile, another user, going by the username Mirza.inj, with 14,800 followers, pointed out 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 came to a halt for over five hours before validators were able to restart the network. Since January 2022, Solana has experienced around half a dozen major outages.
In March 2023, Polygon launched the zkEVM on its mainnet beta to enable developers to deploy smart contracts with increased finality and lower costs. Cointelegraph previously reported that the zkEVM mimics the transaction execution environment of Ethereum’s mainnet.
Polygon claims that the open-source zkEVM allows decentralized applications to scale through transaction batching, unlocking higher performance.
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