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 group introduced that the community was “back online and fully operational.”
Not two hours later, nonetheless, one other announcement got here that Starknet was “experiencing another downtime.” The group’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 shall be shared once we know extra. We perceive this example could 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 a wide range of points, starting from “block production halted” to “cario0 code unrecognized by the sequencer,” and a “reorg” wherein 192 blocks have 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 to this point at the moment. The earlier time the community skilled downtime was July 18, for 13 minutes.
Starknet, which DeFiLlama ranks because the forty second largest chain by whole 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 much from the one community to expertise downtime not too long ago.
Lower than a month in the past, Coinbase’s personal Base community was halted for 44 minutes throughout which period properly over 1,000 blocks have been full of only a single transaction.
The outage was all the way down to an “unsafe head delay”.
Venturing outdoors 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.
