XRP Ledger Resumes Operations After One-Hour Outage

Ripple CTO David Schwartz said the company is investigating after the XRP Ledger went down for more than an hour on Feb. 4.

Azcnews Breaking Xrp Ledger Resumes Operations After One Hour Outage

Ripple’s XRP Ledger has recovered from a network outage that prevented validators from being published for more than an hour, the company’s CTO confirmed.

Data from the XRPL explorer shows that network activity froze at block 93927174 for 64 minutes before the blockchain restarted at 10:58 a.m. UTC on Feb. 4.

“It appears that consensus is still occurring, but validators are not being published, causing the network to split,” David Schwartz said in a Feb. 4 X post.

He also said that validator operators had to manually intervene to “pick a reasonable starting point” to build enough consensus to get the network back on track with the ledger in sync. Schwartz stressed that these are only preliminary observations and that the company is continuing to investigate the root cause of the outage.

It Looked Like Consensus Was Running But Validations Were Not Being Published, Causing The Network To Drift Apart
It Looked Like Consensus Was Running But Validations Were Not Being Published, Causing The Network To Drift Apart

Schwartz noted that only a few validators on the Unique Node List had to make changes to restart the network, “so it’s possible that the network self-recovered.”

RippleX’s X-account also asserted that all customer assets remained safe during the outage.

Data from XRPSCAN shows that around 2 million transactions are made each day by 30,000 to 60,000 different senders.

Therefore, an estimated 88,000 transactions may have been delayed due to the network outage.

The outage has sparked discussions about the centralization of the Ripple system, after Daniel Keller, CTO of node operator XRPL Eminence, pointed out that “all 35 nodes” had returned to validating transactions.

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