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A recent “Grinta” upgrade may be linked to the latest outages on Starknet, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that went offline for more than four hours.<\/p>\n
Starknet<\/a>, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, recently experienced two outages, with one lasting over four hours. The project\u2019s official X account noted in an X post<\/a> on Tuesday evening that Starknet is back \u201cfully operational again,\u201d without elaborating on the cause of the incidents.<\/p>\n \u201cBlock production has resumed normal operation. Transactions submitted between 10:21\u201310:45 am UTC were not processed, and the chain has been rolled back to block 1962681,\u201d the X post reads.<\/p>\n Starknet pledged to provide a \u201cfull retrospective with details on the incident, its cause, and preventive measures\u201d soon. StarkWare, the company behind Starknet, did not respond to The Defiant\u2019s request for comment by press time.<\/p>\n At the time of writing, the price of (STRK<\/a>), Starknet’s token, is down 6% for the week at $0.12, trading more than 90% below its early 2024 launch price.<\/p>\n The exact cause of the outage remains unclear, as there were no indications that the network was overwhelmed by a surge in user demand. Data from Token Terminal shows<\/a> that Starknet had fewer than 4,000 active users on Sept. 1, a 98% decline from its peak of over 230,000 daily active users in September 2023.<\/p>\nGrinta Upgrade<\/h2>\n