The mainnet of the public chain Avalanche experienced temporary block stopping issues tonight. In response to this, the founder stated that they are actively investigating and speculate that the issue may be related to the new text project.
(Background: The text caused trouble for Arbitrum! Disconnection for 1.5 hours in the early morning, official: Increased transactions caused the sequencer to crash)
(Auxiliary information: Text overcrowds AVAX network – Binance suspends deposits and withdrawals, Avalanche official wallet disconnected, is ASC-20 project Dino to blame?)
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Avalanche Co-founder Kevin Sekniqi: Possibly caused by the text
Avalanche previously overwhelmed by the text
Update: Kevin Sekniqi: Outage not related to the text
Veteran public chain Avalanche (Snow)
Mainnet
Tonight at 19:00, an outage occurred suddenly, and at the time of writing, block production has been stopped for over two hours!
Avalanche Co-founder Kevin Sekniqi: Possibly caused by the text
Regarding the outage issue, Avalanche Co-founder Kevin Sekniqi posted on the social platform X at around 20:20, stating:
“Regarding the recent outage issue, Avalance Co-founder Kevin Sekniqi posted on the social platform X at around 20:20, stating:
“Regarding the recent outage issue, Avalance Co-founder Kevin Sekniqi posted on the social platform X at around 20:20, stating:
However, the community seemed unsatisfied with Kevin’s response:
But in response to this questioning, Kevin actively replied:
Avalanche previously overwhelmed by the text
In fact, as early as mid-December last year, when the Bitcoin text frenzy spread to major public chains, Avalanche had experienced network congestion due to the surge in text transaction volume. The AVAX official wallet frontend even crashed, displaying a message saying “Connecting to a new network, please wait.”
At that time, although Avalanche’s mainnet was still able to produce blocks normally, the AVAX C-Chain on Binance Exchange displayed a temporary suspension of deposits and withdrawals, indicating that there were a large number of users congesting the network. Some users reported that the AVAX wallet on Binance had been under maintenance for over 6 hours but withdrawals were still not possible.
Update: Kevin Sekniqi: Outage not related to the text
However, in a later tweet, Avalanche Co-founder Kevin Sekniqi denied his previous judgment on “Text paralyzing Avalanche,” stating that the outage was not related to the text but rather due to an error in gossip-related memory pool management:
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