The recent runtime upgrade of Polkadot’s mainnet triggered interest in the blockchain community.
Polkadot’s runtime upgrade utilizes Wasm in Substrate, which is powering Polkadot and related chains, to allow runtime updates without hard forks.
The recent runtime upgrade of Polkadot’s mainnet triggered interest in the blockchain community. Nevertheless, the improvement caused an unintended pause in block production across different parachains. Notably, Moonbeam Network, a prominent parachain, confirmed disruptions around 10:UTC on April 21st. Even though the purpose of this upgrade was to avoid hard forks and to implement smooth logic changes, this upgrade interrupted block production across competing parachains.
At approximately 10:27 am UTC today, a Polkadot runtime upgrade was enacted, which triggered all parachains, including Moonbeam, to stop producing blocks for approximately 1 hour.
— Moonbeam Network (@MoonbeamNetwork) April 21, 2024
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