Crypto scaling platform Polygon is currently working to fix a problem that has caused an outage for its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM).

Yesterday, Polygon announced the outage on the social media platform X, reassuring users that the issue only impacts the zkEVM and does not affect Polygon’s proof-of-stake blockchain or other projects built using its blockchain development tools.  

Polygon zkEVM Mainnnet Beta faced an issue with its sequencer due to an L1 reorg. We are working on fully resolving the issue and will follow up with a detailed post-mortem.

This only impacts Polygon zkEVM (which is the only rollup) and does not impact Polygon PoS, Polygon CDK,…

— Polygon | Aggregated (@0xPolygon) March 23, 2024

The root cause seems to be an issue with Polygon’s transaction processing system, which organizes transactions into batches before sending them to the zkEVM smart contract on Ethereum’s main network. Polygon stated it is “working to fully resolve the issue” and will provide a detailed report on what happened once service is restored.

Some members of the crypto community have expressed surprise that the extended zkEVM outage has not received more public attention and discussion. “Why is nobody talking about how Polygon’s zkEVM has been down for 10 hours and is still down?” asked one prominent X user. 

Another noted “Polygon’s zkEVM was down for over 10 hours and no one said anything.”

Polygon zkEVM was down for over 10 hours and no one said anything.

If this was any other chain like Solana, we would’ve had 50 hit pieces already.

Also fun fact: Injective has never been down.

— Mirza.inj 🥷 (@TheMirza_) March 24, 2024

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