THORChain Network Resumes After 20-Hour Chain Shutdown

The network went down on October 27 after the team said a bug caused "non-determinism between nodes individual".

Cross-Chain Exchange and Proof-of-Linking Network THORChain has announced that it is "fully operational" again after an outage of over 20 hours

In a tweet on October 28, the THORChain team said the network was “back online and producing blocks” and had reactivated trading. The network was shut down on October 27 after the team said a bug caused "non-determinism between individual nodes".

"It turns out to be string manipulation: the code was pushing a cosmos.Uint (instead of a uint64) into a string, causing the string to get the point of the large int instead of the actual value, causing the memo string to be different on different nodes," the THORChain team said after the string was terminated. "I didn't see this in stagenet because the wrong memo n is never written to disk/block, because it is immediately swapped."

The network is now fully operational after an outage of approximately 20.5 hours. The post-mortem will be published next week https://t.co/QxttVp6Qvy

A THORChain spokesperson told Cointelegraph that the chain has been shut down for security reasons but plans to “roll back once the source of non-determinism is found.” However, token exchange THORSwap reported during the outage that its platform still allows Ethereum and ERC-20 exchanges.

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