Posted 12/15/2023, 6:12:51 PM
Arbitrum Network Suffers Partial Outage Due to Surge in Inscription NFT Traffic
- Ethereum scaling network Arbitrum suffered a "partial outage" for over an hour on Friday due to a surge in network traffic
- The outage was caused by an abundance of "inscriptions" - artwork etched onto the blockchain similar to NFTs
- This stalled the Arbitrum One sequencer, preventing it from relaying transactions properly
- Numerous Arbitrum users and services reported an inability to process transactions during the outage
- Some Twitter users expressed frustration that inscriptions brought down Arbitrum, as they are costly and impractical on a layer two network