Summary
Avalanche’s C-Chain stopped producing blocks due to a mempool management bug, not related to network usage. Developers are investigating the issue, possibly related to inscriptions. Upgrade to Durango is underway, with 17% of validators already running new software. Fix is in testing phase. Outage similar to Solana’s recent incident. Rare outage for Avalanche since 2020. Story is developing.
Key Points
1. Avalanche’s C-Chain stopped producing blocks at around 6:30 am ET Friday, the cause of which is currently under investigation.
2. Most transactions on the network take place on the C-Chain, however some subnets are reportedly unaffected.
3. In an X post, Ava Labs co-founder Kevin Sekniqi attributed the likely cause to “a gossip-related mempool management bug, which is purely a code-related bug, and not an issue with performance handling,” meaning the outage was not related to a spike in usage of the network.