STRK recovery stalls as Starknet suffers network outage after Grinta upgrade

The Starknet community welcomed September with a positive note as the L2 platform officially released the v0.14.0 upgrade – known as ￰0￱ new features aimed to make the STRK ecosystem more decentralized, faster, and smoother for ￰1￱ dominated the community, with some praising it as “Starknet’s most ambitious upgrade yet.” Others expected Grinta to trigger a ‘Starktember’ where the project leads crypto trends and price performance this month. However, the Starknet network went offline hours after the Grinta launch, catalyzing concerns over reliability and stability. STRK’s blockchain explorer, Voyager, shows the Layer2 platform has been offline for more than three ￰2￱ – Voyager What does this outage mean for Starknet users?

The downtime has left the network unresponsive, with individuals failing to interact with the ￰3￱ instance, no one can send or receive funds as the system fails to process ￰4￱ will face delayed or failed swaps, while dApps, games, trading platforms, and wallets within the Starknet ecosystem remain non-functional. Lastly, testers and builders have paused until network recovery. Starkent’s response The L2 project has acknowledged the outage on X, urging patience while promising a swift ￰5￱ said: Starkent is currently experiencing ￰6￱ team is actively investigating the issue and working to restore full functionality as quickly as possible. We’ll share updates as soon as we know ￰7￱ @Starknet · Follow Starknet is currently experiencing ￰8￱ team is actively investigating the issue and working to restore full functionality as quickly as possible.

We’ll share updates as soon as we know ￰9￱ you for your patience. 7:51 AM · Sep 2, 2025 165 Reply Copy link Read 45 replies The announcement confirmed what users had experienced: an inaccessible network. Meanwhile, the damage is already noticeable as negativity swirls around the ￰10￱ boil over Besides service interruptions, Starkent’s service outage after the Grinta upgrade deteriorated confidence among the ￰11￱ user criticized the blockchain for its recurring ￰12￱ highlighted that the team delayed the v0.14.0 upgrade three times, only to crash hours after going ￰13￱ user stated : Starknet is the dumbest project I’ve ever ￰14￱ v0.14.0 was finally launched yesterday after three delayed releases, but now it’s ￰15￱ blunt criticism reflects user frustrations, especially as the community believed Grinta would stabilize the Starknet platform and fulfill long-standing promises.

Instead, the wait ￰16￱ price outlook The technical glitch spilled into the price ￰17￱ had displayed bullish signs after Grinta’s launch. However, it has lost the upward momentum as sentiment flipped ￰18￱ is now underperforming the broader ￰19￱ value of all digital tokens increased by over 2% to $2.81 trillion in the past 24 ￰20￱ is targeting short-term uptrends after the latest ￰21￱ the other hand, Starknet exhibits a modest 0.57% gain on its daily ￰22￱ by Coinmarketcap STRK hovers at $0.1236 and might dip in the next few sessions unless the team solves the ￰23￱ negativity within the community could push prices toward early August lows of $0.1133.