{"id":414632,"date":"2022-03-11T08:58:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T05:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/polygon-network-suffers-from-extended-service-outage-after-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T08:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T05:58:04","slug":"polygon-network-suffers-from-extended-service-outage-after-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/polygon-network-suffers-from-extended-service-outage-after-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"# Polygon network suffers from extended service outage after upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2870335cd9c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2870335cd9c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/polygon-network-suffers-from-extended-service-outage-after-upgrade\/#%E2%80%9D_Polygon_network_suffers_from_extended_service_outage_after_upgrade_%E2%80%9C\" >&#8221; Polygon network suffers from extended service outage after upgrade &#8220;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9D_Polygon_network_suffers_from_extended_service_outage_after_upgrade_%E2%80%9C\"><\/span>&#8221; Polygon network suffers from extended service outage after upgrade &#8220;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-128018ef>Layer-2 Ethereum scaling solution Polygon has not produced a new block for over 11 hours, with developers attributing the issue to a technical upgrade on the network.<\/p>\n<p>On March 10 at 4:20 pm UTC, Polygon (MATIC) network developers notified users on the project\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.polygon.technology\/t\/pos-chain-downtime-and-heimdall-issue\/2324\">forum<\/a> that there would likely be downtime starting at about 5:50 pm UTC due to maintenance required on one of the network\u2019s three layers. A recent upgrade is thought to have caused an error in the network\u2019s ability to achieve consensus.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe suspect there may have been a bug in the upgrade which affected consensus and caused different Heimdall validators to be on different versions of the chain, thereby not reaching 2\/3 consensus.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As expected, the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/polygonscan.com\/blocks\">outage<\/a> began at about 5:54 pm UTC. <\/p>\n<p>The Polygon team issued an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.polygon.technology\/t\/update-temporary-hotfix-deployed-to-resume-the-polygon-pos-chain\/2364\">update<\/a> at about 1:30 am UTC explaining that it was still working to fix the error and that a hotfix was deployed to help continue making blocks. That hotfix does not <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear to have taken effect as of the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>The team also <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygonDevs\/status\/1501966615314939907\">assured<\/a> users that all funds and data on-chain are safe.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2022-03\/8ea1d22f-f5df-4ef9-b652-60f830745c86.PNG\"><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\">A network outage on Polygon has lasted for 11 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Polygon users apparently understood the outage was expected, but by the sixth hour, rumblings began to appear among the community. Most users have pointed out concerns at the extended amount of time for the outage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So uhhhhh&#8230;..Polygons been down for 6 hours and counting&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 King (@0xgodking) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xgodking\/status\/1502077243530559491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Others have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Miklos211\/status\/1502041162324094976\">noted<\/a> that their profession or crypto business has been negatively affected by the outage. <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> user <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Miklos211\">@Miklos211 said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI&#8217;m literally unable to work thanks to that, could you please send us a time where we can expect the network to be back on?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Polygon network consists of three <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.chainstack.com\/blockchains\/polygon\">layers<\/a> that each serves a unique role. Smart contracts run on the Ethereum (ETH) layer and the Bor layer helps produce blocks. The third Heimdall layer is where the problem lies. <\/p>\n<p>Heimdall is a set of proof-of-stake (PoS) nodes that help the network reach consensus. With the Heimdall issue, Polygon cannot reach network consensus.<\/p>\n<p>The last major bug that Polygon fixed put $24 billion worth of funds at risk, but was patched up without issue at the end of 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Polygon\u2019s focus on building L2 infrastructure outweighs MATIC\u2019s 50% drop from ATH<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In related <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>, Polygon recently partnered with the multichain music nonfungible tokens (NFT) marketplace\u00a0TokenTraxx to support the marketplace in the Polygon ecosystem. 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On March 10 at 4:20 pm UTC, Polygon (MATIC) network developers notified users on the project\u2019s forum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":414633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjItMDMvM2E3NDk4Y2QtNDI1Ny00ZTI0LTljNTEtODk4NzQwMTNiOWQzLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74867,74868,113408,73821],"class_list":["post-414632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-altcoin","tag-defi","tag-polygon","tag-developers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}