{"id":13299,"date":"2024-02-24T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinengineer.io\/blog\/?p=13299"},"modified":"2024-02-24T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T10:12:33","slug":"avalanche-outage-not-caused-by-inscription-wave-co-founder-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/avalanche-outage-not-caused-by-inscription-wave-co-founder-clarifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Outage Not Caused by Inscription Wave, Co-founder Clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:174\"><strong>The recent block production halt on the Avalanche network was not caused by the &#8220;inscription wave&#8221; as initially suspected, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/avalanche-validators-hit-ath\/\">Ava Labs<\/a> co-founder Kevin Sekniqi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Avalanche experienced a major technical disruption on Friday, February 23rd, leading to a block production halt. Initial reports suggested a possible connection to the recently launched &#8220;inscription wave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sekniqi initially tweeted,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"citation-0 citation-end-0\">&#8220;Investigating Avalanche primary network block production issue right now. Seems to be related to a new inscription wave launched about an hour ago.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sekniqi later clarified on Twitter, &#8220;Clarification on this: the issue seems to be a gossip-related mempool management bug, which is purely a code-related bug, and not an issue with performance handling. Inscriptions seem to have hit the edge case, but inscriptions did not affect performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In simpler terms, the outage was caused by a bug in the code, not by the increased activity from the inscription wave.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"content\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"ac-container ac-adaptiveCard\">\n<div class=\"ac-textBlock\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"darkmysite_style_txt_border darkmysite_processed\" data-darkmysite_alpha_bg=\"rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\">\n<div class=\"darkmysite_style_txt_border darkmysite_processed\" data-darkmysite_alpha_bg=\"rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\">\n<p class=\"darkmysite_style_txt_border darkmysite_processed\" data-darkmysite_alpha_bg=\"rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\"><em class=\"darkmysite_style_txt_border darkmysite_processed\" data-darkmysite_alpha_bg=\"rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\">Also, you can freely share your thoughts and comments about the topic in the comment section. 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Initial reports suggested a possible connection to the recently launched &#8220;inscription wave.&#8221; Sekniqi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[273,4574],"class_list":["post-13299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto-news","tag-avalanche","tag-kevin-sekniqi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Avalanche Outage Not Caused by Inscription Wave, Co-founder Clarifies - Coin Engineer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The recent block production halt on the Avalanche network was not caused by the &quot;inscription wave&quot; as initially suspected.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/avalanche-outage-not-caused-by-inscription-wave-co-founder-clarifies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Avalanche Outage Not Caused by Inscription Wave, Co-founder Clarifies - 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