{"id":88655,"date":"2023-12-25T13:29:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T11:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88655"},"modified":"2025-09-13T19:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:25:02","slug":"zksync-era-protocol-halts-block-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/zksync-era-protocol-halts-block-production\/","title":{"rendered":"zkSync Era Protocol Halts Block Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 8:00 Kyiv time (9:00 MSK), the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-layer%e2%80%912-solution-in-blockchain\">L2<\/a>-solution <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-zksync\">zkSync Era<\/a> halted block production at height #22 364 805 due to an unforeseen error.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-eu.googleusercontent.com\/inUbfXLY4xac_ZTQAnDA8cW8-uEBzoH0ynXGCCDjMYk1x4nd8cLHg4dzSDrQHEwiRISsIF-oM-s24dW3qDovg_3bFkJPXOzT7_Zwvr8ZE6OzYpTQLms9putLub2yxQxgOW4iA-_wcmavyH3QWam7cn8\" alt=\"zkSync Era protocol halts block production\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Latest blocks created in zkSync Era. Data: <a href=\"http:\/\/explorer.zksync.io\">explorer.zksync.io<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">25 December 2023 | 16:38<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Around 14:00 the protocol resumed operation. Developers said the outage was caused by an error on one of the servers, triggering the security protocols.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The zkSync Era network is now fully operational. At 05:50 UTC, one of the network\u2019s automated safety protocols was triggered by a bug in the server. This issue required teams to inspect and is now fully resolved.<\/p>\n<p>We will share a full post-mortem report soon. Thank you for your\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 zkSync Developers (\u220e, \u2206) (@zkSyncDevs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zkSyncDevs\/status\/1739237721963651143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>As of writing, the protocol has been non-operational for more than four hours. The project developers confirmed &#8216;network issues&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">zkSync Era is currently encountering network issues.<\/p>\n<p>Teams are actively addressing the situation and are committed to resolving it as swiftly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We will share a post-mortem report once the issue has been fully addressed and analyzed.<\/p>\n<p>For updates:\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 zkSync Developers (\u220e, \u2206) (@zkSyncDevs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zkSyncDevs\/status\/1739188416875765797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 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>&#8220;The team is actively looking into the situation and strives to resolve it as quickly as possible. We will publish a report once the error is fully fixed and analyzed,&#8221; the statement says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>ZkSync Era faced a similar issue on December 16. In the wake of the launch of the Ordinals analogue, the number of transactions per second exceeded 150, which caused congestion and a 15-minute network outage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On December 16, an inscription event on zkSync Era caused a large increase in transactions over a period of 38 hours. For nearly 14 hours straight, the network handled ~150 TPS \u2014 peaking at 187 TPS \u2014 with an average tx cost of ~$0.12.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the details and our learnings \u2b07\ufe0f\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6m957bl96Q\">pic.twitter.com\/6m957bl96Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 zkSync Developers (\u220e, \u2206) (@zkSyncDevs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zkSyncDevs\/status\/1737258046752227493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The protocol\u2019s operability was restored after a restart. At the time the developers identified three main problems:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>low database throughput, which hampered monitoring during periods of heightened load;<\/li>\n<li>UI errors where completed transactions were displayed as pending;<\/li>\n<li>a lagging block explorer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On December 15, the Arbitrum One L2-solution <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/arbitrum-team-restores-network-after-outage\">stopped processing transactions<\/a> due to a significant surge in network traffic. The network&#8217;s operability was restored in under two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the month, The Open Network\u2019s throughput slowed to one transaction per second due to a fault triggered by the popularity of the Ordinals analogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 8:00 Kyiv time (9:00 MSK), the L2-solution zkSync Era halted block production at height #22 364 805 due to an unforeseen error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88656,"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":[1301,1179,1518],"class_list":["post-88655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities","tag-layer-2-solutions","tag-zksync"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88655","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=88655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88657,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88655\/revisions\/88657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}