Arbitrum (ARB), a prominent Ethereum scale solution, According to the network, there was significant downtime on December 15 status page.
The incident prompted an immediate investigation into the cause and the implementation of a solution. At the time of writing, the Arbitrum One network remained inaccessible for more than 60 minutes due to sequencer and feed issues.
Arbitrum struggles with network outages
Arbitrum’s status update acknowledged the issue, to report that the Arbitrum One Sequencer and Feed crashed at 10:29 a.m. ET amid a notable increase in network traffic.
In particular Martin Köppelmann, co-founder of Gnosis, so-called that the disruption within the Arbitrum network was due to ordinal numbers. Köppelmann noted that the stress testing of various blockchains using ordinal numbers had led to the disruption, stating: “Ordinal’s stress testing of various blockchains is certainly entertaining to watch. Now they’ve taken down the Arbitrum sequencer.
In addition to the sequencer and feed problems, also Arbitrum encountered a halt in block production and new block generation about 1.5 hours ago. The impact of this outage on overall network functionality and transaction processing remains a concern for users and stakeholders.
Investigating the root cause of the downtime is crucial to understanding the underlying technical issues and preventing similar disruptions in the future. Users and industry participants are eagerly awaiting Arbitrum’s post-mortem analysis, which is a detailed account of the incident and the proposed remedial measures.
ARB thrives despite market volatility
Over the past 24 hours, the ARB token experienced a decline of 4.94%, due to short-term market fluctuations. However, the token has demonstrated relative stability when it comes to performance over longer periods of time.
In the last 180 days, ARB has a significant growth of 17.76%, indicating a positive trend for long-term investors.
According to TokenTerminal factsArbitrum currently has a circulating market capitalization of $1.49 billion, with a fully diluted market capitalization of $11.69 billion.
The revenue generated by the project has seen significant growth in the last 30 days, with a remarkable increase of 68.00%. The annualized revenue projection is $85.97 million, underscoring the project’s ability to generate sustainable revenues.
Furthermore, Arbitrum has witnessed an increase in active users, with a daily average of 166.37 thousand participants in the last 30 days. This growth in user acceptance indicates increasing interest and use of the Layer 2 scaling solution.
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