Crypto: polygon corrects a critical bug thanks to a successful hard fork

This Wednesday, Polygon experienced a technical incident affecting the local purpose of transactions on its proof-of-stake network. For almost fifteen minutes, the blocks continued to be produced, but their confirmation was late, disturbing the synchronization of the validators. In an environment where each latency challenges the robustness of the infrastructure, the rapid intervention of the technical team made it possible to restore the normal functioning of the network.

A hard fork fork to restore the purpose

A few weeks after the launch of its most ambitious hard fork, Polygon confirmed to having “Made successfully” A hard fork intended to correct a bug having disrupted its POS network this Wednesday, September 10.

This anomaly, which generated delays of 10 to 15 minutes in the local purpose of crypto transactions, which Polygon calls “Milestones”slowed down the synchronization of the validators and the normal chain of the blocks.

“The checkpoints are treated normally and the finalization of the consensus has been fully restored to Polygon POS” has declared the team on X, before adding that transactions and state synchronization “Operate normally”.

This bug, which occurred in the nodes software, disturbed the rapid purpose specific to the Polygon network, without affecting the finality of the checkpoints on Ethereum Mainnet. To correct it, two targeted updates have been applied, with immediate effects on network performance:

• Bor, the block production layer, has been updated in version V2.2.11-Beta2;

• Heimdall, the coordination layer of the consensus, received the update v0.3.1;

• The so -called purpose “Local” is now restored;

• During the incident, the blocks continued to be produced, but without reliably reaching a deterministic purpose, which slowed down effective validation by nodes and increased the risk of deynchronization.

Polygon Labs, while claiming that the services are again operational, has so far provided no explanation on the exact origin of the bug.

Repeated test to test

This is not the first time that Polygon has faced such a disturbance. A few weeks earlier, the network had already undergone a breakdown of about an hour, also linked to purity problems.

This incident occurred shortly after the deployment of the Heimdall V2 update, qualified by the Crypto developers of “The most complex hard fork since 2020”. A technical context which could explain the temporary fragility of certain layers of network coordination.

Currently, the teams have not yet communicated on the precise causes of the bug, now a part of uncertainty on the robustness of the latest updates.

On the market side, the impact was quick to be felt. The native crypto of the network experienced a momentary fall up to -4 %, before regaining ground after the announcement of the fix. This type of reaction illustrates the sensitivity of investors to stability problems on Layer 2 solutions, which however play a key role in the scalability of Ethereum.

Even if the purpose has been restored, these repeated breakdowns fuel a certain caution among the validators and developers of decentralized applications, concerned about the reliability of the infrastructure on which their operations are based.

If the incident seems to be resolved today, it raises an essential question: is the stability of the network sufficient to support its ambition of massive adoption? Polygon has demonstrated a rapid reaction capacity which has been beneficial for the Pol price, but the network will have to regain long -term confidence. Increased surveillance, rigorous audits and reinforced transparency will probably be necessary to consolidate its position in an ecosystem where technical error tolerance is increasingly low.