Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta Resumes Operations After Emergency Fix
Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta Resumes Operations After Emergency Fix
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The Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta has resumed operations after the Emergency Council activated an emergency state to allow the Polygon zkEVM Core Team to apply a necessary fix to the system. This enabled the L1 settlement of the Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta to resume. The emergency state has now been deactivated, and any further updates will be subject to a 10-day timelock before taking effect. A detailed post-mortem on the issue will be provided on the @0xPolygonFdn forum early next week. This incident only impacted the Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta and did not affect Polygon PoS, Polygon CDK, or any chain deployed using Polygon CDK.
Polygon zkEVM Mainnnet Beta faced an issue with its sequencer due to an L1 reorg. We are working on fully resolving the issue and will follow up with a detailed post-mortem. This only impacts Polygon zkEVM (which is the only rollup) and does not impact Polygon PoS, Polygon CDK,
Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta has resumed operations. The Emergency Council for Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta activated the emergency state to allow the Polygon zkEVM Core Team to apply a necessary fix to the system, allowing L1 settlement of Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta to resume. Upon
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