Polygon Blockchain Faces Temporary Delay in Block Finality - Here’s What You Need to Know
Polygon's blockchain hit a snag today as block finality experienced unexpected delays—just another Tuesday in crypto land.
Network Glitch or Growing Pains?
The layer-2 solution temporarily stumbled during peak transaction hours, causing validators to scramble. No funds were at risk, but traders definitely felt the pinch as confirmation times stretched longer than a banker's lunch break.
Back Online and Bullish
Engineers quickly patched the consensus mechanism, restoring normal operations within hours. The network's native token barely flinched—proving once again that in crypto, even technical hiccups can't derail momentum when the fundamentals remain strong.
Just remember: Wall Street systems crash too, they just charge higher fees for the privilege.
Node Disruption and RPC Issues Identified
The delay has been traced to problems with certain RPCs, which prevented some nodes from progressing normally. As a result, some validators and RPC providers experienced interruptions. Many of the affected nodes have already been restarted, which has restored normal operations for most of the network.
A few nodes, however, had to roll back to the last finalized block, number 76,273,070, and are still in the process of syncing. The Polygon team has identified a fix and is gradually rolling it out to all validators and service providers.
Some of the services people use have been affected too. Polygonscan’s mainnet and OKLink explorers are running a bit slow, and Alchemy Polygon is facing a partial outage. Everything else, like Polygon Docs, Portal, Staking UI, zkEVM, Infura Polygon, and Quicknode, are fine. Those using these might notice small hiccups until all nodes are fully caught up.
Polygon has said the main network is still running fine and checkpoint finality is working as it should. The team is keeping an eye on things and expects everything to be back to normal soon. Its official status page will be sharing the latest updates.
This is a developing story.
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