Cross-chain trade and proof-of-bond community THORChain introduced it was as soon as once more “totally operational” after a greater than 20-hour outage.
In an Oct. 28 tweet, the THORChain group stated the community was “again on-line and producing blocks” and had re-enabled buying and selling. The community was halted on Oct. 27 after the group stated a bug had precipitated “non-determinism between particular person nodes.”
“Seems to be string manipulation: code was pushing a cosmos.Uint (as an alternative of a uint64) right into a string, which causes the string to get the purpose of the massive int as an alternative of the particular worth, inflicting the memo string to be totally different on totally different nodes,” stated the THORChain group following the chain halt. “Did not see this in stagenet as a result of the unhealthy memo by no means will get written to disk/block, as a result of it will get swapped instantly.”
The community is now totally operational after an outage of roughly 20.5 hours. Submit-mortem will probably be launched subsequent week https://t.co/QxttVp6Qvy
— THORChain (@THORChain) October 28, 2022
A THORChain spokesperson advised Cointelegraph that the chain had been halted for security causes however it deliberate to “revert as soon as the supply of non-determinism is discovered.” Nevertheless, token swapping platform THORSwap reported through the outage that its platform was nonetheless permitting Ethereum and ERC-20 swaps.
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Different main blockchains have reported community outages affecting customers. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko stated in September that outages — reportedly the results of low-cost transactions — had been the blockchain’s “curse,” with not less than seven since its launch in 2020.
Following stories of the outage, the value of THORChain’s native token RUNE fell from $1.57 to $1.49 — greater than 5.6% — inside 24 hours, however has since returned to $1.55.
