Helium network team resolves consensus error after 4-hour outage

2022.07.12 19:16

The Internet of Things (IoT) blockchain Helium shut down for about 4 hours on July 11 due to validator outages from a software update, causing delayed transaction finality.

During the outage, devices transferring data over the network were not affected, but miner rewards and token transfers were left pending. The team resolved the issue by skipping the blockchain forward by one block and resuming normal functions.

A Helium community moderator explains an AWS outage affected validators.

Helium network team resolves consensus error after 4-hour outage