Starknet Resumes Operations After Over Four-Hour Outage
Starknet Outage and Recovery
- Starknet, a Layer 2 blockchain on Ethereum, experienced an outage for over four hours.
- The disruption began after the Grinta upgrade (version 0.14.0), intended to enhance performance.
- Block production stopped after block #1961878; transactions were not processed between 2:23 am and 4:36 am UTC.
- Developers initiated a rollback to block #1960612, erasing all transactions submitted during the outage.
- RPC providers are gradually restoring services, stabilizing wallet and dApp connections.
- During the outage, the STRK token fell approximately 4.5% to $0.1204 but recovered slightly to around $0.1234.
- A full incident report will be released detailing the root cause and future preventive measures.
Future Plans for Starknet
- The Grinta upgrade is part of Starknet's strategy to enhance decentralization.
- Current operations heavily depend on StarkWare, which manages the transaction sequencer.
- The roadmap includes distributing block validation across multiple independent nodes.
- The goal is to transition from centralized to decentralized sequencing and transaction validation.