Layer-1 Blockchain Canto Halts Block Production Again After Briefly Coming Back Online

The team flagged “unforeseen secondary effects” as a fresh problem.

Layer-1 blockchain Canto has halted block production once again after coming back online briefly, with the team flagging “unforeseen secondary effects” as a fresh problem.

According to Canto Explorer, the Cosmos-based layer-1 blockchain began producing blocks again at about 12:35 pm UTC on Aug. 12 after applying its scheduled fix, running for about 90 minutes before halting again on block 10,848,199.

Canto had initially pegged an “upgrade” at 12:00 pm UTC on Aug. 12 to address the consensus issue. A consensus mechanism validates a transaction and marks it as authentic, listing it on the blockchain.

“Due to unforeseen secondary effects caused by the proposer priority issue, validators halted the network after upgrading to v8,” said Canto in a post at around 9:30 pm UTC on Aug. 12.

It noted that its core development team, B-Harvest, is now building and testing a new version, v8.1.0, and expects validators to be able to resume producing blocks in about 15 hours from the time of the post.

Validators play a vital role in the functioning of the blockchain, adding new blocks and verifying transactions in proposed blocks.

“Once again, all funds are safe. Once the chain resumes, users will be able to access all activities as usual,” said Canto.

Cointelegraph has contacted Canto for further comment and clarification on what caused the second outage.

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