According to PANews, Ethereum's Layer2 protocol Starknet experienced a block reorganization, leading to a backlog of transactions. The block monitoring tool Starkscan indicated a four-hour interruption in block production. Starkscan showed a time gap between the creation of block 630028 (10:30:26 on April 5) and 630029 (14:16:15 on April 5), but Starknet's status page did not reflect any network failures on that day.
Subsequently, Starknet issued a statement on platform X, explaining that a rounding error bug led to the block reorganization. The company stated that block production continued as usual, but the reorganization caused the transaction backlog to reach its limit. The post explained, 'As a result, new transactions could not be accepted and processed within a few minutes and were therefore rejected. In addition, some transactions were revoked due to changes in parameters, such as timestamps.' The media contacted Starknet for more details about the event, but has not yet received more information or whether block production has stopped based on block data.
The last major interruption reflected on Starknet's status page was on March 13, when the speed of block creation slowed down due to Ethereum's Dencun upgrade.