The Avalanche network has failed
C-Chain does not produce blocks for more than two hours. The developers believe that the failure is caused by a new wave of "inscriptions".
On February 23, 2024, Avalanche's C-Chain crashed, according to the blockchain status page. The network has not produced new blocks for more than two hours.
Kevin Sekniki, co-founder of Ava Labs Studio, a blockchain developer, commented on the situation. According to him, a possible cause of the failure is a new wave of "inscriptions".
Investigating Avalanche primary network block production issue right now. Seems to be related to a new inscription wave launched about an hour ago.
— Kevin Sekniqi ? (@kevinsekniqi) February 23, 2024
"Obviously, this is a special case that needs to be eliminated quickly," he added.
Sekniki believes that the problem may be in the mechanism of processing transactions with "labels" in the mempool.
At the time of writing, C-Chain is still not creating new blocks. There were no new statements from the project team.
At the end of November 2023, network activity in Avalanche increased dramatically. The number of transactions jumped from an average of 450,000 to 2.3 million.
Source: https://incrypted.com/v-sety-avalanche-proyzoshel-sboj/
