The Avalanche network has come to a near halt after âa bug in the cross-chain functionalityâ code that enables the Avalanche protocol and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to speak with each other failed under high loads, according to the Avalanche developer team on Reddit.
The release of Avalancheâs newest decentralized finance (DeFi) product money market Pangolin snowballed into âinsane loadâ for the network, which further âtriggered a very low probability bug that produced a bad state in the network,â the team said on Reddit.Â
The ability to send transactions has crawled to a halt with some users reporting wait times of up to four hours for finalizing a transaction. Funds are safe, however.
The network has gone into a âself-healingâ mode after the bug âcaused the entire network to panic.â The team maintains nothing with the core protocol itself is wrong.
Avalanche developers worked overnight on the code break, but will only push an update once the team is â100% confidentâ it will address the problem.
The Avalanche developer team did not return questions for comment by press time.
This is a developing situation and will be updated.
