Ethereum clients drop updates as Blockchain suffers two outages in 24 hours

Ethereum consensus clients Prysm and Teku released new updates to fix recent Beacon Chain termination issues. The Ethereum network suffered from finality issues twice in 24 hours, first for 25 minutes and second time for over an hour. This does not affect end users and transactions, but concerns actors and developers.

According to the Ethereum Foundation, it takes about 15 minutes for an Ethereum block to complete. “Finality” refers to the guarantee that a block cannot be modified or removed from the blockchain without burning at least 33% of the total stake ETH.

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Ethereum clients announce fixes for finality issues

Prysm Ethereum Client announces the v4.0.3 hotfix May 13. The release contains the necessary optimization to prevent the Beacon Chain node from high resource usage during turbulent times. The client has strongly advised Ethereum node operators to upgrade their node if it is under heavy resource usage.

According to Prysm, an increase in validator sizes and untimely old certificates stress the node’s CPUs and increase memory usage. The release will cause a node to ignore attestation for an old target and prevent problems in the future.

Ethereum client Take it also released the v23.5.0 update May 13. Like the Prysm release, this update filters old certificates that caused problems on the Ethereum mainnet. The fix includes several additions and improvements to prevent issues.

Meanwhile, Ethereum client Nimbus claims that no critical upgrade is required for users. However, it will continue to monitor and issue fixes if things deteriorate further.

Interesting, Ethereum clients Lighthouse and Lodestar was not exposed to high loads due to a different design. While other consensus layer clients on Ethereum experienced high resource usage, Lighthouse and Lodestar kept the network alive throughout the event at 40-50% of the blocks until the other clients were restored and the blocks were completed.

Ethereum influencers noted the critical importance of Ethereum’s customer diversity saving Ethereum from a major power outage. The Ethereum blockchain remained resilient to partial failures, then recovered and completed.

The ETH price is currently trading above $1800. It is up 3% in the last 24 hours, with 24-hour lows and highs of $1747 and $1816 respectively.

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