Arbitrum community goes offline for at the least 2 hours

Ethereum layer-2 community Arbitrum One has skilled a partial outage, in response to an alert on the community’s official standing web site.

The sequencer “stalled” at 10:29 am ET (13:29 UTC) throughout a “vital surge in community visitors,” in response to the alert. Arbitrum’s block explorer, Arbiscan, shows that some blocks are being produced. Nonetheless, they look like solely processing two transactions in every block.

Some customers took to X (Twitter) to speculate about whether or not the outage was attributable to inscriptions, as this could clarify the small variety of transactions in every block. Nonetheless, this has not been confirmed by the crew. Inscriptions are a sort of knowledge format utilized in some blockchain networks and are sometimes used to hold collectible photos. Inscriptions originated on Bitcoin however have just lately been used on Arbitrum because of the MemeOrdi protocol.

On Arbitrum’s official Discord server, neighborhood admin Ricardo Gordon introduced that the crew is “working to resolve this as rapidly as potential and can present a autopsy quickly.”

This can be a growing story, and additional data shall be added because it turns into out there.