Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol dYdX introduced it’s investigating a latest halt in block manufacturing because the chain underwent a scheduled improve.
On April 8 at 05:30 UTC, dYdX printed a standing report highlighting the chain was continuing with a scheduled protocol improve and that functionalities of the dYdX Chain could also be disrupted.
Nonetheless, the chain didn’t resume block manufacturing after the scheduled upkeep.
On the time of writing, the blockchain explorer platform Nodes Guru reveals that the most recent blocks produced by the dYdX mainnet have been from the time of the scheduled improve, which was 5 hours prior.
dYdX additionally confirmed that the chain encountered a problem and mentioned at 6:50 UTC that their workforce was already debugging it. Nonetheless, the workforce mentioned the problem remains to be being investigated and may not be resolved till later. They wrote:
“The difficulty continues to be investigated. It’s been agreed to reconvene with the validators round 15:00 UTC. Because of this the devs gained’t counsel a workaround or a repair till then in order that the validators gained’t get jailed for not being on-line when the chain restarts.”
The protocol improve was proposed on Feb. 21 and included developments like order guide options, danger and security enhancements and Cosmos-related enhancements.
The outage comes after a latest improvement in dYdX when the neighborhood authorized the staking of 20 million tokens.
On April 6, the dYdX neighborhood voted to permit $61 million in treasury tokens to be staked on the liquid staking protocol known as Stride.
dYdX highlighted that the transfer follows the expansion in buying and selling exercise throughout the protocol. “The speed of DYDX being staked to validators has plateaued and deposits to the trade are rising at an incredible tempo,” they wrote.
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The dYdX chain additionally suffered a focused assault which led to $9 million in losses in November 2023.
On Jan. 3, the protocol mentioned it had already recognized the attacker and was contemplating authorized motion. It additionally mentioned it had improved its buying and selling platform to boost monitoring and alerts.
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