Zilliqa on-chain transactions plunge amid ‘technical concern’

Zilliqa on-chain transactions plunge amid ‘technical concern’

by Jeremy

Replace December 18, 2023 10:09PM UTC: The Zilliqa mainnet has been restored and is now totally operational. 

The $383-million Zilliqa ecosystem is experiencing disruptions as a result of a “important state of affairs” impacting the community.

In accordance with a Dec. 18 put up by builders, the Zilliqa blockchain faces a “technical concern that has resulted in an interruption to dam manufacturing.” Blockchain information reveals that day by day transactions on Zilliqa subsequently plunged by roughly 50% to 30,906, in comparison with a mean of 61,000 previously few days.

Exercise has since paused, with the final transaction occurring at round 11 am UTC, with no new blocks being produced since then. “The crew are working onerous to recuperate the community,” wrote Matt Dyer, Zilliqa’s CEO, in a follow-up.

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“This sudden problem is our prime precedence and our technical crew is working to establish and resolve the issue,” mentioned builders, warning that each one companions ought to “quickly halt any deposits or withdrawals on the community” as the problem is being resolved.

Nonetheless, builders emphasised that “funds are SAFU,” and customers can nonetheless test their on-chain pockets steadiness utilizing the Zilliqa block explorer after reviews surfaced of customers unable to see token balances inside their Zilliqa pockets.

“No motion is required on customers’ ends. Simply watch for the community to be restored, and issues shall be again to regular,” mentioned a neighborhood moderator on Zilliqa’s official Discord.

Based in 2017 in Southeast Asia, Zilliqa launched its mainnet the next 12 months and is devoted to blockchain scalability and a metaverse enterprise. The community has processed 61.4 million transactions since its inception. Even earlier than the present community outage, nonetheless, Zilliqa’s blockchain noticed comparatively few transactions per second concerning utilization charge.