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Cardano blockchain encountered an anomaly on Saturday night (19:00 EST, between units 8300569 and 8300570), resulting in the shutdown of nearly 60% of all active nodes over a short period of time. Although blockchain has not stalled, transaction delays have occurred. But what took place and what caused it?
One of the first to report the abnormality was tom stokes, shark knot co-founder and coo and operator of a pool of ada piles. He wrote: “A few hours ago over half of all Cardano nodes went offline. That's why decentralization is important," and shared the following chart.
As the above chart shows, the network recovered to around 87% within a short period of time. But the cause of the incident was long unknown. By the time of the press, the inventor of cardano, Charles Hoskinson, had yet to comment.
Cardano Developer IOG Responds
A statement from the development company behind Cardano, Input Output Global (IOG), gave an explanation for the phenomenon. An explanation for this was given by the development company behind Cardano, Input Output Global (IOG).
The company said a bug caused the disconnection and reboot of more than 50% of the nodes.
According to the Cardano developer, this is a non-concerning event:
According to the developer of Cardano, this is an event which has nothing to do with: Systems have performed exactly as intended.
Block production was only briefly impacted with a portion of the network falling out of sync for approximately https://cardanoscan.io/block/8300569 before nodes restarted.
Prior to the restart of the nodes.
As a buyer in the market. However, the company promises to investigate more into the cause of the anomaly and to implement additional logging monitoring measures in addition to the "regular" monitoring procedures.
In the community, the incident triggered discussions on the decentralisation of the network and if the anomaly is worrying. Within the community, the incident triggered discussions on the decentralization of the network and whether the anomaly is disturbing.
“There was one time where inefficient reward calculation over an epoch boundary slowed down nodes, that’s about it” the user explained. , however, the community agreed that the impact was minimal, as building blocks only slowed down for a few minutes during the restart of the nodes.
However, some users expressed concern about the decentralisation of the network. Some have said that the event has shown that the diversity of cardano nodes is not sufficient. The only reason not all nodes fell was that not all nodes accepted inbound connections. “The survivability here was not due to node diversity, but node robustness,” another user added.
The survival there was not due to the diversity of the nodes.
The robustness of nodes," another user added. Robustness of nodes", added another user.cardano (ada) price today the one-day chart of ada shows a breakout of a downtrend that lasted more than eight months. ADA's one-day chart shows a break from a downward trend that lasted over eight months.
