{"id":25097,"date":"2023-12-16T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T09:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/arbitrum-says-network-back-to-normal-after-brief-outage\/"},"modified":"2023-12-16T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T09:34:14","slug":"arbitrum-says-network-back-to-normal-after-brief-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/arbitrum-says-network-back-to-normal-after-brief-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbitrum says network back to normal after brief outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : CoinJournal: Latest Bitcoin, Ethereum &amp; Crypto News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post-article-image  -mt-24  mb-8  lg:-mt-32  rounded  overflow-hidden\">\n<picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1675177122158-8202db09-c8fc-43c6-acc1-3c14a5ecf384-smartcrop-750x375.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 750px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1675177122158-8202db09-c8fc-43c6-acc1-3c14a5ecf384-smartcrop-363x181.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1675177122158-8202db09-c8fc-43c6-acc1-3c14a5ecf384-smartcrop-750x375.jpg\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 750px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1675177122158-8202db09-c8fc-43c6-acc1-3c14a5ecf384-smartcrop-363x181.jpg\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/>\n<\/picture>                    <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Ethereum layer 2 solution Arbitrum had a brief downtime on Friday.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">An update showed a surge in inscriptions had contributed to the spike in network traffic and gas fees.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Arbitrum has since \u201cresolved this issue,\u201d with operations back to normal and gas prices steadily recovering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Arbitrum, a rollup chain on Ethereum, is running normally after a brief downtime on Friday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The layer 2 Ethereum scaling solution faced a little more than one hour network outage on December 15. An update posted on the official Arbitrum Foundation account on X noted that the outage happened after a surge in inscriptions triggered a stall in the Arbitrum One Sequencer.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Arbitrum operations back to normal<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to details shared with the community, the Arbitrum One Sequencer and Feed stalled approximately at 10:29 AM ET. The technical hitch led to a significant surge in network traffic and inevitably a spike in transaction fees.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Arbitrum One Sequencer stalled at 10:29 AM ET during a significant surge in network traffic. <\/p>\n<p>We are working to resolve as quickly as possible and will provide a post-mortem as soon as possible. <\/p>\n<p>More details here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NBlzFuPFro\">https:\/\/t.co\/NBlzFuPFro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arbitrum (\ud83d\udc99,\ud83e\udde1) (@arbitrum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arbitrum\/status\/1735699786618020205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While the platform has yet to provide a full post-mortem of the temporary outage, initial investigations show that rising inscriptions triggered the Sequencer\u2019s failure. Here\u2019s the team\u2019s initial report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201c<em>The Arbitrum One Sequencer is up and running after a temporary outage starting at 10:29 AM EST and resuming at 11:57 AM EST. The team is actively investigating, but we can confirm that a sustained surge of inscriptions triggered the sequencer to stop relaying transactions properly<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Crypto analyst cygaar noted in a comment on X that its possible people had spammed the layer 2 chain with inscriptions. These overwhelmed the network\u2019s sequencer, creating a huge backlog of transactions and skyrocketing the gas fees.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Summary of the Arbitrum outage and high Ethereum gas prices:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 People are spamming inscription transactions on Arbitrum. These are transactions that submit some hex data on-chain (images and metadata mostly).<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 My guess is this overwhelmed the sequencer itself, preventing L2\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/deJn4yVsT1\">pic.twitter.com\/deJn4yVsT1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 cygaar (@0xCygaar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xCygaar\/status\/1735720370001293589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0In a later <a href=\"https:\/\/status.arbitrum.io\/clq6te1l142387b8n5bmllk9es\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">update<\/a>, the Arbitrum team said:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201c<em>Gas prices on Arbitrum One have stabilized and operations are back to normal. 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Arbitrum has since \u201cresolved this issue,\u201d with operations back to normal and gas prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}