Avalanche has confirmed that block finalization will stop and blocks will no longer be accepted on the network, and the developer is currently investigating.
“Developers across the community are currently investigating block finalization outages that are preventing block acceptance on the primary network,” Avalanche said in an incident report at 6:30 a.m. ET.
According to data from the Avalanche blockchain explorer, the last block on the Avalanche subnet (P chain, X chain, C chain) is over an hour old and appears to have occurred at the same time as the alert.
Prior to today, a short-term outage occurred in March 2023 that affected subnets C and X chains.
On February 1st, block ingestion on Avalanche was delayed due to infrastructure provider issues, but the team said at the time that there was no impact on the performance or stability of the Avalanche network or subnets.
Layer 1 blockchain competitor Solana also suffered an outage earlier this month following a spate of such incidents in 2022.
The Block has reached out to Avalanche for comment.
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