Ethereum layer-two community Starknet has skilled two outages in brief succession, following its newest “Grinta” improve.
The transition hasn’t gone easily, to place it mildly.
Starknet went offline for simply over two hours this morning, between 2:23am and 4:36am UTC, earlier than the staff introduced that the community was “back online and fully operational.”
Not two hours later, nevertheless, one other announcement got here that Starknet was “experiencing another downtime.” The staff’s newest replace states it’s “deploying a fix now” and “expects the network to be operational shortly.”
Standing replace: Starknet is experiencing one other downtime. Our engineers are arduous at work fixing the problems. Extra particulars can be shared once we know extra. We perceive this case may be irritating and thanks on your endurance. https://t.co/dU025BVcbq
— Starknet (@Starknet) September 2, 2025
The Grinta improve, a transfer to decentralize transaction ordering, opens up the method to “three independent sequencers running consensus and taking turns building blocks.”
Nevertheless, a sequence of incidents logged on Starknet’s incident reporting web page present quite a lot of points, starting from “block production halted” to “cario0 code unrecognized by the sequencer,” and a “reorg” through which 192 blocks had been dropped.
On the time of writing, the positioning’s mainnet uptime tracker has logged a complete of 5 hours and 38 minutes of outage thus far in the present day. The earlier time the community skilled downtime was July 18, for 13 minutes.
Starknet, which DeFiLlama ranks because the forty second largest chain by complete worth locked (TVL), is classed as a “Stage 1” rollup by ecosystem watchdog L2BEAT, although this was achieved months previous to the improve.
Rollup breakdown
Starknet is way from the one community to expertise downtime just lately.
Lower than a month in the past, Coinbase’s personal Base community was halted for 44 minutes throughout which period effectively over 1,000 blocks had been crammed with only a single transaction.
The outage was right down to an “unsafe head delay”.
Venturing exterior the Ethereum ecosystem, the Sui blockchain went offline for 2 hours final November and, previous to that, Solana grew to become virtually synonymous with downtime.
Ethereum mainnet itself has by no means skilled downtime in simply over 10 years of operation, an achievement it celebrated with a commemorative NFT on the finish of July.
