With two Beacon Chain finality issues reported in less than 24 hours, stability of Ethereum network draws fresh concerns
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The Ethereum network suffered another technical issue which prevented the transaction finality for some time. In response to a Beacon chain issue, the core developers of Ethereum rolled out patches for Teku clients and Prysm Labs.
In the PoS Ethereum ecosystem, the Beacon Chain acts as the consensus layer for Ethereum.
On the 11th of May, developers reported problems being faced by the Beacon Chain in transaction finality because of an unknown issue. A similar qualm was repeated the next day that stopped finalisation of blocks for over an hour.
The Ethereum Foundation revealed in a statement that the block finalisation was not being reached for three and eight epochs, which was shared on Twitter by an Ethereum consultant. It was apparently because of an unusually high load on some consensus layer clients.
Superphiz.eth, the consultant, was optimistic about the finality issue being resolved. He said, “This is one step on our diversity and decentralisation journey; let’s learn from it and move forward with greater purpose.”