Polygon’s core developer team has just released a post-mortem statement through a report on the Polygon Support website responding to the outage that happened from the 22nd until the 23rd of March 2024.
The statements detailed the team’s response to the outage while detailing how the outage happened as well as the solution for it.
Core Developer’s Post-Mortem Statements
In the post-mortem statement which is categorized as an Outage Report, the core developer team of Polygon detailed the incident that happened.
Source: Polygon Outage Report
The outage happened on March 22nd, 2024, and ended on March 23rd, 2024, and it lasted around 14 Hours.
Polygon’s zkEVM layer was the only blockchain affected by the outage as the core developer team stated that the outage happened because of Ethereum’s reorg process.
Reorg is short for reorganization, which happens when a disagreement over transaction ordering or validity forces a network to converge on a single version of the truth.
This means that there was a faulty transaction recording process in the Ethereum Blockchain which made the communication between Ethereum and its layer two blockchain, which in this case is the Polygon zkEVM chain, also became faulty.
To clarify, Polygon is a modular blockchain with two layers of blockchain, the first one being the Polygon Proof of Stake Blockchain which is its layer one blockchain, and the zkEVM Chain which is its layer two blockchain to help process Ethereum’s transactions.
The Polygon Proof of Stake Blockchain was not affected at all and it continued running normally even when the layer two outage occurred.
However, the impact of the outage was severe as there were 4,000 transactions impacted by the outage which caused users not to be able to access their money for 14 hours.
Luckily, the team was able to handle this incident where it has now upgraded the version of node and prover for the zkEVM chain to be able to run normally in the long term.
Double Standards Still Happening
The blockchain outage did not make much headlines in the news. However, it has successfully enraged some developers and founders in the blockchain community.
Source: @0XMert_
The critics were not directed to the outage, as new blockchains experience outages here and there after innovations have been made, but the critics were directed toward how the public responded especially the media.
Most of the ones complaining are supporters of Solana, where if a Solana outage happens, it would make headlines in all media.
But, when an outage happened for Polygon, it did not experience the same criticism as Solana but was also backed by some media saying that the outage was good for development.
One of the ones saying this fact is the CEO of Helius Labs which is an infrastructure development platform for Solana Developers.
This proves that double standards still exist and that the EVM ecosystem is still being more praised than the non-EVM ecosystem.
The double standard has been happening since a couple of months ago, especially in 2023, when Polygon and Solana had outages but only Solana was criticized heavily for it.
So, what can be taken from this? One of the things to note is that not all blockchains are perfect and every blockchain has its flaws.
This means that investors and developers who are looking into supporting one blockchain should research it deeply and not follow the trend or social media blindly as there might be biases happening as evident from the Polygon and Solana incident.
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