Layer 2 blockchain network Arbitrum suffered a partial outage of service on Friday morning (ET) after a site traffic soar on the platform triggered its sequencer and feed to stall.

In a expose on its internet page, the platform stated that the sequencer and feed absorb been operational one more time and that it became working to fix technical elements.

“The Arbitrum One Sequencer and Feed stalled at 10:29 AM ET for the length of a vital surge in network site traffic,” Arbitrum stated in its assertion, including: “The Sequencer and Feed are again up, although we’re privy to the technical enlighten causing excessive transaction prices and are working to get to the bottom of this as hasty as seemingly. We can provide a put up-mortem as quickly as seemingly.”

Sequencers are connectors, between layer 2 networks love Arbitrum and Optimistic and decentralized mainnets equivalent to Ethereum. They support to search out out the pronounce all the method via which transactions occur on these networks. But they’ve additionally confirmed vulnerabilities.

Arbitrum suffered an outage in June attributable to a trojan horse in its sequencer. That trojan horse stemmed from a monumental “backlog of transactions which hadn’t been posted on-chain,” Arbitrum Foundation’s neighborhood lead wrote at the time.

Friday’s outage created concerns at some stage in the Arbitrum neighborhood, including the cancellation of an tournament on Twitter spaces (now X). “Today time’s stream has been postponed, sorry for the inconvenience Arbinauts!” Arbitrum wrote in an X put up.