Many individuals have reported pending zkSync Era transactions who say the blockchain was down

As no blocks were created on the Layer-2 blockchain on Saturday, zkSync Era was not accessible for over four hours. Among the main Ethereum Layer-2 scaling options compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is zkSync Era, which began its mainnet on March 24 and is built upon on zero-knowledge proof roll-up (zk-Rollup).

According to ZkSync Era Block Explorer, on April 1 between 1:52 AM CET (8:22 PM GMT) and 6:02 AM CET (4:02 AM GMT), no blocks were generated on the mainnet blockchain. Many individuals have reported pending zkSync Era transactions who say the blockchain was down.

The official Twitter accounts for zkSync, Matter Labs, or any of the other related firms did not address the issue. The zkSync team later admitted the mainnet downtime afflicting the zkSync Era and said that they are actively attempting to correct the situation.

Today, the zkSync Era network experienced outage from 1:52 (8:22 PM GMT)–6:02 AM CET (4:02 AM GMT). Our team found the cause and resolved the problem, and the system is healthy and operating 100 per cent as anticipated again. We will provide a post-mortem with more information to the community shortly, the firm stated.

The group has requested that users stave off on making any new transactions until the mainnet is backed up. The zkSync Era mainnet recommenced regular block production after a four-hour downtime, as seen by the Block Explorer.

Matter Labs released the zkSync Era mainnet alpha on March 24, which made it the first zkEVM mainnet to be deployed prior to rivals’ Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible solution. The zkEVM mainnet beta of Polygon went live on March 27.

ZkSync Era strengthens native account abstraction — enhanced ERC-4337 account abstraction, LLVM compiler, data compression, and Hyperscalability, apart from supporting faster and cheaper transactions.

The zkSync team is still tracking, auditing, and assessing susceptibilities and risks, thus the era is not so far completely decentralized. Though, the Alpha designation will be withdrawn soon.