Starknet outage marks second major disruption since Grinta rollout
Starknet is investigating a complete network halt, its second major outage since the Grinta upgrade.Summary
Starknet developers are investigating a complete network halt that has stopped block production for several hours, marking the second significant outage for the network in about four months. The team acknowledged the downtime on X while investigating the root cause. The previous major outage on September 2 was attributed to issues following the ambitious Grinta upgrade, which involved Ethereum node failures, manual intervention inconsistencies, and a bug in the blockifier software, ultimately requiring chain reorganizations. A StarkWare contributor framed these setbacks as an inevitable cost of pioneering a decentralized ZK rollup architecture on a live chain. Starknet is not unique in experiencing downtime, as other Layer 2 networks like Base, Linea, Polygon zkEVM, and Arbitrum have also faced recent disruptions. Despite these hiccups, Starknet has implemented major technical upgrades, including stateful compression and achieving 'Stage 1' decentralization, leading up to the Grinta rollout which introduced a decentralized sequencer. The network's native token, STRK, is currently trading significantly below its all-time high.
(Source：The Block)