Hassan Maishera
The Zilliqa team announced via X on Thursday that the infrastructure team has resolved the disruption to mainnet block generation. The team revealed that transaction processing was halted at 04:00 PM UTC, permitting the network to clear the transactions in the mempool and self-recover.
Preliminary analysis indicates this may be related to an issue within a specific function that returns a null value instead of a node's RLP following a possible invalid database lookup.
The team created internal rehearsal networks to recreate this issue and trial bug fixes, allowing possible solutions to be tested within an isolated environment before progressing to Testnet and mainnet deployments.
The Zilliqa mainnet is now back online and full functionality has been restored. In addition to this fix, the team also rolled out the previously announced Zilliqa v9.3.4 network upgrade, which includes a number of enhancements to EVM compatibility. Node operators should therefore ensure they are using the latest v9.3.4 configuration files to join the upgraded Zilliqa mainnet.
Zilliqa (ZIL) is one of the world’s first blockchains being built on a sharded architecture and features smart contracts written in the platform’s proprietary programming language: Scilla. ZIL is trading at $0.02421 at press time, up by 1% in the last 24 hours.
