zkSync went down for 5 hours on Christmas Day but is now back online



Builders of the zkSync community acquired an unwelcomed Christmas current on Dec. 25. The community went offline, requiring the group to “examine” it throughout the vacation to find out what went flawed, in line with a Christmas Day announcement from the group. As per the group, zkSync was again up and operating after roughly 5 hours.

At 7:36 am UTC, the zkSync group posted an announcement on X (previously Twitter) stating that the community was “presently encountering community points.” They claimed they had been “actively addressing the scenario” and had been “dedicated” to getting it again on-line. At 10:52 am UTC, the group posted one other message, stating that the difficulty was resolved. “[O]ne of the community’s automated security protocols was triggered by a bug within the server,” the submit said, including that the community was now “absolutely operational.” In accordance with the message, the crash had occurred at 5:50 UTC, which suggests that zkSync was down for roughly 5 hours.

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Shutdowns and crashes affecting blockchain networks have occurred a number of instances over the course of 2023. In January, Solana suffered a four-hour outage from a distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault. In March, Polygon went down for more than 11 hours due to a bug launched throughout a tough fork. And on Dec. 15, a sudden burst of inscription minting prompted Ethereum layer-2 Abitrum to go down for 78 minutes.