Starknet Reports Service Outage on September 2
Starknet engineers confirmed a Sept. 3 outage affecting block production, with a rollback to block 1,962,681 and pending transactions requiring resubmission.
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Fact Check
The statement is directly confirmed by the primary source, Starknet's official status page. Evidence 1, 4, and 8 explicitly state that on 'Sep 2', Starknet was 'taking longer than expected to produce a block.' This constitutes a service outage or disruption. Multiple other news sources corroborate this event, referring to it as a 'service disruption', 'downtime', or 'halt' on the same date.
Summary
Starknet experienced a network outage on Sept. 3, during which transactions submitted between 10:21 and 10:45 UTC were not processed. The chain rolled back to block height 1,962,681, and all subsequent transactions must be resubmitted. The Starknet team pledged to release a detailed review outlining the cause and preventive measures. This follows the earlier outage on Sept. 2, which lasted 28 minutes.
Terms & Concepts
- Starknet: A layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum that uses zero-knowledge rollups to increase transaction throughput while reducing costs.
- Layer-2 Network: A secondary framework or protocol built on top of an existing blockchain (Layer-1) to improve its scalability and efficiency.