Zilliqa on-chain transactions plunge amid ‘technical difficulty’

The $383 million Zilliqa ecosystem is experiencing disruptions resulting from a “vital state of affairs” impacting the community.

In keeping with a Dec. 18 post by builders, the Zilliqa blockchain faces a “technical difficulty that has resulted in an interruption to dam manufacturing.” Blockchain information shows that every day transactions on Zilliqa subsequently plunged by roughly 50% to 30,906, in comparison with a mean of 61,000 previously few days. 

Exercise has since paused, with the final transaction occurring at round 11 AM UTC with no new blocks being produced since then. “The group are working exhausting to recuperate the community,” wrote Matt Dyer, Zilliqa’s CEO in a follow-up. 

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“This sudden problem is our prime precedence and our technical group is working to establish and resolve the issue,” stated builders, warning that each one companions ought to “quickly halt any deposits or withdrawals on the community” as the difficulty is being resolved. Nonetheless, builders emphasised that “funds are SAFU,” and customers can nonetheless examine for his or her on-chain pockets stability utilizing the Zilliqa block explorer after experiences surfaced of customers being unable to see token balances inside their Zilliqa pockets.

“No motion is required on customers’ ends. Simply look ahead to the community to be restored, and issues can be again to regular,” stated a group moderator on Zilliqa’s official Discord. 

Expensive group, We’re writing to tell you of a vital state of affairs presently impacting the Zilliqa blockchain community.

The community is presently experiencing a technical difficulty that has resulted in an interruption to dam manufacturing. This sudden problem is our prime…

— Zilliqa (@zilliqa) December 18, 2023

Based in 2017 in Southeast Asia, Zilliqa launched its mainnet the next 12 months and is devoted to blockchain scalability, together with a metaverse venture. The community has processed 61.4 million transactions since inception. Even earlier than the present community outage, nevertheless, Zilliqa’s blockchain noticed relatively few transactions per second by way of utilization charge.