According to data from the block explorer, Avalanche has not produced a block for about 2 hours, and the most recent block stayed at 20:02 UTC+8. The developers are investigating and working on fixes.

In response to this matter, co-founder Kevin Sekniqi originally thought that the new Inscription might be too popular and caused problems in the network memory pool, but later changed his mind and clarified that the problem had nothing to do with Inscription, but the memory pool management related to gossip. mistake.

Clarification on this: the issue seems to be a gossip-related mempool management bug, which is purely a code-related bug, and not an issue with performance handling. Inscriptions seem to have hit the edge case, but inscriptions did not affect performance. https://t.co/9cvQSAmTVu

— Kevin Sekniqi (@kevinsekniqi) February 23, 2024

"This is purely a coding-related error and not a performance issue. Inscription seems to have hit an edge case, but it has not affected network performance."

This article Avalanche is down for two hours! The founder clarified: It has nothing to do with the inscription, it is purely a code-related error. First appeared in Zombit.