Aptos suffered an outage final evening from round 7 pm ET and lasted greater than 5 hours yesterday whereas internet hosting a mass drawing utility to have a good time its one-year anniversary.
Knowledge from Aptos block explorer Aptos confirmed that on-chain transactions stopped for about 5 hours on October 18.
The blockchain explorer AptoScan exhibits a distinction of 5 hours and 6 minutes between two consecutive blocks. Usually, blocks on the community affirm in lower than a second.
The blockchain explorer additionally exhibits a spike in Aptos’s transaction charge from round 0.2 APT price round $1 to 1.72 APT price $8.58 when the shutdown occurred.
Launched final October, the Transfer-based layer-1 platform originated as a spin-off from Meta’s (previously Fb) crypto challenge Libra.
To have a good time its birthday, the Aptos Basis created a neighborhood drawing platform Graffio.artwork the place Aptos pockets customers can contribute to a clean canvas to create the neighborhood artwork.
In accordance with its co-founder and CEO of Aptos Labs Mohammad Sheikh, 4,000 customers have been portray on the net canvas earlier than the shutdown occurred.
Nonetheless, shortly after Sheikh’s tweet, the Aptos mainnet went down.
The Aptos crew notified through Twitter that transactions on the community have been impacted as they labored to resolve the problem. They have been in a position to revive the blockchain in 5 hours.
Decrypt has reached out to Aptos to study in regards to the root trigger and mitigation steps taken by the crew to keep away from future occurrences.
Coingecko’s knowledge exhibits that the worth of APTOS, the native gas-paying token for the blockchain, dropped barely at 2.2% after the short-term shutdown. However shortly returned to the $5 stage.
The token is buying and selling 35.8% decrease since its launch final 12 months.
