“Starknet mainnet block production is temporarily paused while we investigate a proving error observed on a transaction,” a message shared in the network's Telegram community read. “Out of caution we halted sequencing while we verify chain safety and state consistency. Transactions will not be processed during this period. We will share updates as we learn more.”
According to another message in the Starknet Telegram around 7:00 am ET, a bug was identified and the team began working on additional testing, validation, and downstream impact assessment.
Starknet is back online and fully operational. Transactions submitted between 9:24 am and 9:42 am UTC may not have been processed properly. A retrospective, including full timeline, root causes, and long-term prevention measures will follow.
Additional details about the outage have not yet been revealed. A representative for the network pointed Decrypt to the network’s post on X
The price of STRK was not significantly impacted by the downtime, showing a less than 1% dip over the last 24 hours to a recent price of $0.090, still up about 11% on the week. Ethereum (ETH), meanwhile, is up about 2% on the day to $3,192, rising nearly 9% in the last seven days.
