Flow Validators Approve Upgrade, Network Resumes Block Production

Flow Validators Approve Upgrade, Network Resumes Block Production

Flow’s latest official update reports full network resumption, with Cadence and EVM live, 99.9% of accounts operational, and DeFi services and bridges returning after validation.

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Fact Check
The statement is strongly supported by multiple high-authority, primary sources. Official announcements from the Flow blockchain's social media accounts and its official status pages directly confirm that network validators reached consensus on and accepted a software upgrade. The official status pages also explicitly confirm that a network upgrade was completed and the mainnet resumed operations, which includes producing blocks. This primary evidence is further corroborated by numerous secondary sources, including specialized crypto news outlets and content on major platforms like Binance, all of which report the same sequence of events: a validator consensus on an upgrade, followed by the network resuming block production. The evidence is highly consistent across all provided sources, with no contradictions found. While two of the provided sources have mismatched metadata (URL/title vs. summary), their summaries align perfectly with the narrative established by the verified primary sources, suggesting the errors are in the data compilation rather than the underlying facts.
Summary

According to Flow’s official Jan. 4 statement, the network has fully resumed operations, with Cadence smart contract language and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) functionality restored and over 99.9% of accounts operational. Recovery tasks such as account restoration and removal of fraudulent tokens continue. DeFi services and bridges are set to resume after final validation is complete. A detailed technical postmortem will be released within 48 hours, and the network expects full recovery within the week.

Terms & Concepts
  • Validator: A participant in a blockchain network responsible for confirming transactions and maintaining the ledger.
  • Cadence: A resource-oriented smart contract language used on the Flow blockchain.
  • EVM: Ethereum Virtual Machine; a computation engine that executes smart contracts and deploys decentralized applications on compatible blockchains.