Polygon zkEVM resumes operations; emergency state deactivated

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Written on Mar 25, 2024

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The zkEVM Mainnet Beta suffered an outage over the weekend.
A sequencer issue in L1 restructuring triggered the downtime.
The team has lifted the emergency state after fixing the issue.

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Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta suffered downtime over the weekend as the network encountered a sequencer glitch.

The outage, which only affected Polygon zkEVM and not Polygon CDK or PoS, arose from a sequencing issue due to a layer1 reorganization.

Polygon’s zkEVM deactivates emergency state

Meanwhile, the latest updates show the platform has resumed operations after an emergency fix.

Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta has resumed operations.

The Emergency Council for Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta activated the emergency state to allow the Polygon zkEVM Core Team to apply a necessary fix to the system, allowing L1 settlement of Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta to resume. Upon…
— Polygon | Aggregated (@0xPolygon) March 25, 2024

The team activated the emergency alert to address system problems impacting layer1 settlement. Nonetheless, the team has lifted the emergence state, and any further updates remain subject to a ten-day timeframe before execution.

Further, the team will provide a comprehensive post-mortem breakdown next week.

“We will follow up with a detailed post-mortem on the @oxPolygonFdn forum early next week.”

That aims to ensure transparency into Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta’s ongoing events, offering stakeholders details about the platform’s operations and upcoming developments.