{"id":78640,"date":"2023-05-12T11:06:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T08:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=78640"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:28:49","slug":"ethereum-network-experiences-finality-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ethereum-network-experiences-finality-glitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum network experiences finality glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown error in the Ethereum blockchain caused transactions to fail to finalise for a period.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from <a href=\\\"http:\/\/beaconcha.in\/\\\">Beaconcha.in<\/a>, during epochs 200,552 to 200,554 there was a sharp drop in confirmed operations \u2014 down as much as 40%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-large\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" width=\\\"1024\\\" height=\\\"136\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasted-Graphic-1-1024x136.png\\\" alt=\\\"Pasted-Graphic-1\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-206775\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasted-Graphic-1-1024x136.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasted-Graphic-1-300x40.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasted-Graphic-1-768x102.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasted-Graphic-1.png 1389w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: beaconcha.in<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Analytical service EthereumPools wrote on Twitter that during this period \u201calmost every pool or operator\u201d in the network tracked by experts went offline \u2014 meaning a transaction was not confirmed correctly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\">? For a couple of epochs almost every pool\/operator that we monitor went offline ?<\/p>\n<p>Any idea what happened? <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Q9BDFis1d\\\">pic.twitter.com\/3Q9BDFis1d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ethereumpools.info (@EthereumPools) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EthereumPools\/status\/1656768563913404424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">May 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\">Finality has been restored. We do not know the root cause yet, but something happened to cause several client implementations to work really hard to keep up with the chain.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 prestonvanloon.eth (@preston_vanloon) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/preston_vanloon\/status\/1656776301942906883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">May 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cWe do not yet know the root cause, but something happened, and several client implementations began working very hard to keep up with the chain. We are studying the current issue on the mainnet. We will publish an update as soon as we learn something new,\u201d Lun explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a reminder, after <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/curve-finance-launches-crvusd-stablecoin-on-the-ethereum-mainnet\">launch of the decentralized stablecoin crvUSD<\/a> on the Ethereum mainnet, Curve Finance <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/curve-finance-relaunches-crvusd-after-deployment-error\">reported<\/a> the need to redeploy the smart contract due to an issue with the voting token.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown error in the Ethereum blockchain caused transactions to fail to finalise for a period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,1253],"class_list":["post-78640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-technical-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"30","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78642,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78640\/revisions\/78642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}