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Polygon Resolves Outage in zkEVM Beta, Eyes AI-based NFT Innovations

The Polygon zkEVM project that’s currently in the beta stage of development witnessed a major outage over the last weekend facing a 10-hour long downtime. This happened due to a major sequencer issue resulting from the reorganization within the Layer-1 network.

The good thing about this was that the downtime was limited to Polygon zkEVM, and didn’t spread further to Polygon PoS or CDK. However, the Emergency Council for Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta quickly swung into action while implementing the fix and restoring normal network operations in a few hours.

The Polygon team has assured to release a comprehensive post-mortem analysis on the @0xPolygonFdn forum early next week. This way it seeks to to provide transparency and a deeper understanding of what actually led to the outage within the Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta.

Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta has resumed operations.

The Emergency Council for Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta activated the emergency state to allow the Polygon zkEVM Core Team to apply a necessary fix to the system, allowing L1 settlement of Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta to resume. Upon…

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