zkSync Era faces block production failure, resumes with increased TVL

zkSync Era faces block production failure, resumes with increased TVL

April 3, 2023

By Suzuki Shillsalot

zkSync Era experienced block failure just over a week after its launch.

The team resolved the issue in five minutes, introduced alerts, and plans to decentralize the platform while TVL surges.

The much-anticipated launch of the ZkSync Era on 24 March was expected to revolutionize Ethereum transactions by introducing a new dimension. However, over a week after its debut, the zero-knowledge platform experienced a hiccup when it failed to generate blocks for a few hours.

Zero knowledge with zero blocks

As of 1 April, which marked eight days since the zkSync Era was launched, there were reports that the L2 platform ceased generating blocks.

The zkSync Era Block Explorer transaction data indicated that from 01:52 AM CET to 6:02 AM CET on 1 April no blocks were created on the mainnet blockchain of zkSync Era.

Blockchain networks experiencing block production failures are not new, as demonstrated by the recent block failure on the Avalanche network.

However, the situation with zkSync Era drew attention due to the short period between its launch and the block failure. It is worth noting that the network was still in alpha, which the team acknowledged in their response.