The cross-chain exchange and link testing network THORChain was halted earlier today as a result of a bug causing “non-determinism between individual nodes”.
Around 8 pm UTC, the THORChain team initially tweeted that the developers were aware of a chain outage and were working to find the cause of the issue.
About four hours later, the team released a new update noting that “consensus stops in a distributed state machine come from sources of nondetermination between individual nodes and prevent the ledger from being corrupted.”
The next steps, it was claimed, were to find the source of the lack of resolve, post an update and reboot the state machine, and although it was noted that the first step was close, there have been no updates since then, which suggests that the developers are dealing with quite a headache.
Consensus stops in a distributed state machine come from sources of non-determination between individual nodes and prevent the ledger from being corrupted.
Next steps:
1) Find source of non-determinism
2) Release update
3) Restart state machine(1) is close https://t.co/sS4EMbYcOQ
— THORChain (@THORChain) October 27, 2022
According to THORChain’s explorer, the network still appears to be at a standstill at press time. However, the THORSwap token exchange platform provided an update of its own, noting that its platform is still working.
“Update on the current halt of THORChain Swaps/LP. Funds are safe. Ethereum and ERC-20 swaps are fully operational on ThorSwap via DEX Aggregator. Patience, the THORChain developers are on the case,” wrote.
The developers of the THORChain infrastructure, Nine Realms, were unfazed by the incident, well they suggested that debugging is just part of the process of improving the THORChain network.
“Each stop is immediately investigated by a security team and core developers, resulting in improvements to the protocol. As the network matures: stop early, stop often,” it is stated.
Cointelegraph has reached out to THORChain for comment and will update the story if it receives a response.
THORChain is not the only one to experience network issues this week, as the WhatsApp messaging platform, owned by Meta, was out of service for its 2,000 million users for about 2 hours on October 25. WhatsApp attributed the problem to a technical error, but did not elaborate.
THORChain’s native token RUNE is down 1.4% in the last 24 hours to $1.53, but is up 6.5% in the last seven days. Zooming in, the asset is down a hefty 92.7% from its all-time high of $20.87 on May 19, 2021, according to CoinGecko.
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