Linea Shakes Off Glitch in Time for Massive Airdrop

Ethereum layer-2 network Linea and Polygon both faced technical setbacks, but moved quickly to restore ￰0￱ reported a temporary disruption in its mainnet sequencer at around 5:52 am UTC, which engineers resolved within an hour before shifting into a monitoring ￰1￱ incident coincided with Linea’s highly anticipated token airdrop. Meanwhile, Polygon encountered a bug in its Bor and Erigon nodes that delayed consensus finality and disrupted RPC services, though the chain continued producing ￰2￱ and RPC providers were instructed to resynchronize, and Polygon has since identified a fix being rolled out to restore normal ￰3￱ Restores Network Ethereum layer-2 network Linea successfully restored its mainnet sequencer after a brief disruption that took place on Wednesday ￰4￱ to the project’s status page , the incident was detected at approximately 5:52 am UTC when engineers identified performance degradation affecting the sequencer, which is the crucial component responsible for ordering and batching transactions on the ￰5￱ less than an hour, Linea’s team pinpointed the root cause and deployed a fix to stabilize the ￰6￱ afterward, by 6:32 am UTC, the network transitioned into a monitoring phase, with engineers ensuring the fix held steady and assessing the system’s ￰7￱ Linea did not disclose the exact nature of the technical issue, it confirmed that stability was restored and that no further disruptions were ￰8￱ status page The timing of the incident raised some questions across the crypto community as it coincided with the launch of Linea’s much-anticipated token ￰9￱ project previously announced in July that its token generation event (TGE) would take place on ￰10￱ was a milestone that has been closely watched by Ethereum users and ￰11￱ Linea did not link the technical issue directly to the airdrop, there is speculation given the overlap in ￰12￱ event is major for the ecosystem, as Linea plans to distribute 9.36 billion LINEA tokens to approximately 749,000 eligible ￰13￱ will have a 90-day claim window, running until Dec. 9, to redeem their ￰14￱ airdrop is being hailed as one of the largest token distributions on Ethereum since the network’s formative years, and is considered to be a reflection of the scale of engagement Linea has achieved through its community initiatives, quests, and on-chain ￰15￱ project positioned the airdrop as part of a broader ecosystem incentive program that is designed to reward early adopters and contributors while encouraging ongoing ￰16￱ individual participants, allocations will also extend to ecosystem partners and developers supporting Linea’s ￰17￱ anticipation around the TGE already attracted support from major exchanges, with Binance and OKX confirming it will list the LINEA ￰18￱ for the token is set to start ￰19￱ the early disruption, the quick response to the sequencer issue seems to have contained the ￰20￱ Faces Node Bug Polygon is also working to resolve a temporary disruption in consensus finality that was caused by a bug affecting its Bor and Erigon ￰21￱ to an incident report published on the network’s official status page, the issue began early Wednesday and has impacted some Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services, leaving certain applications built on Polygon unable to access the ￰22￱ the blockchain itself is still operational and continues to produce blocks, several validators and RPC providers were forced to rewind to the last finalized block and ￰23￱ Polygon team explained that the bug prevents node progress under certain configurations, though a restart restored functionality for many ￰24￱ are now collaborating with infrastructure providers to accelerate debugging and restore full ￰25￱ stressed that the disruption does not affect core chain operations and reassured its users that a fix is on the ￰26￱ situation caused confusion among users after Polygonscan , the network’s block explorer, showed no new blocks for more than five hours.

A Polygon representative clarified that Polygonscan’s nodes halted at a bad milestone produced by Heimdall, the network’s consensus ￰27￱ team redirected users to an alternative tracker showing that blocks were still being produced in real ￰28￱ 08:52 UTC, Polygon said that checkpoint finality was functioning as expected, with confirmations occurring every 15 ￰29￱ analysis revealed that Heimdall’s finality gadget, which usually produces milestones every few seconds, was not creating new ￰30￱ a result, block finality is delayed until checkpoints are posted on Ethereum every 20 ￰31￱ the delay, the chain continues to add blocks without ￰32￱ confirmed via X that a fix has been identified and is being rolled out to validators and service ￰33￱ team added that they are working closely with major infrastructure providers to minimize the impact on users.