THORChain Suspends Its Network due to a Bug
Early today, THORChain, a cross-chain exchange and proof-of-bond network, was halted due to a bug that caused “non-determinism between individual nodes.”
The Initial Incident
A chain outage was first reported by the THORChain team around 8 pm UTC, with developers trying to figure out what was causing it.
A further update was posted four hours later noting that “consensus halts in a distributed state machine are from sources of non-determinism between individual nodes and prevent the ledger from becoming corrupted.”
As stated in the post, the next steps were to identify the cause of the nondeterminism, release an update, and restart the state machine. Despite noting that step one was close, no update has been released since, suggesting the developers currently are dealing with a lot of work.
Consensus halts in a distributed state machine are from sources of non-determinism between individual nodes and prevent the ledger from becoming 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
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“Consensus halts in a distributed state machine are from sources of non-determinism between individual nodes and prevent the ledger from becoming corrupted. Next steps: 1) Find source of non-determinism 2) Release update 3) Restart state machine (1) is close,” tweeted THORChain.
The Platform Still Operating Despite The Suspended Network
Although THORChain Explorer reports that the network is still down, token swapping platform THORSwap provides an update stating that its platform is still operational.
“Update on the current halt of THORChain Swaps/LP. Funds are safe. Ethereum and ERC-20 swaps are fully functioning on ThorSwap via DEX Aggregator. Hang tight, THORChain devs are on the case!,” said THORSwap.
Update on the current halt of THORChain Swaps/LP. Funds are safe.
Ethereum and ERC-20 swaps are fully functioning on @THORSwap via DEX Aggregator.
Hang tight, @THORChain devs are on the case! 🙏 https://t.co/C88UFWs9VL
— THORSwap ⚡X🔺 (@THORSwap) October 27, 2022
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Nine Realms, the developers of the THORChain infrastructure, were unfazed by the incident, saying that ironing out bugs is just a part of constant improvement.
“Each halt is investigated immediately by a security team and core devs—resulting in protocol improvements. As the network matures: halt early, halt often,” they said.
It is still up 6.5% over the past seven days, despite a 1.4% decline over the last 24 hours for RUNE, the native token of THORChain.
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