Arbitrum said all its systems were operational after being shut down a day earlier due to a ‘spike in messages’.

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Ethereum’s layer 2 blockchain, said on Friday that all systems were operational after a sustained surge in Bitcoin ordinal-inspired inscriptions. This caused the sequencer to stop, resulting in a temporary outage of approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.

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““Arbitrum’s hourly inscriptions increased for several hours before being stopped,” they wrote, noting that the inscription “Fairness” was what prompted the outage.

Gasoline price stability

Arbitrum said in a status update Friday afternoon that gas prices on its network had stabilized and all operations were now “back to normal.” We are continuing to gather more information and will provide a full “postmortem” in the coming days.

“Today has been a tough day. There are many lessons learned and work to be done to ensure that Arbitrum delivers the excellence that people rightly expect. Engineering web3 is difficult, but we are all working together to create a better future.” -Harry Kalodner, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Offchain Labs wrote At X.

Ordinal tokens previously caused problems on the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain. December 7, Blockchain slow down When a user floods an inscription, it is processed at one transaction per second. same type of transaction cause Soaring volumes and gas bills From Polygon last month.

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