Will Zilliqa's frequent struggles with errors and outages impact its future as a high-throughput blockchain?

On January 16, Zulayqa (goal) The blockchain network — designed to improve scalability and efficiency in blockchain networks through sharding technology — has resumed operations after an outage caused by synchronization issues at its research nodes. These nodes, which are essential for validating transactions and supporting the network, went out of sync and blocked transactions from reaching the blockchain.

Dear community,

The team has been working hard over the past few hours, and we are happy to announce that the network restoration process is now complete.

Full functionality has been restored to the Zilliqa mainnet, and you can now resume transactions on the network.

Thank you for your efforts... https://t.co/bmIqkB0TCw

- Zilliqa (@zilliqa) January 15, 2025

During the outage, Zilliqa assured users that their funds were safe and encouraged them to do so Confirms Balances via on-chain explorer ViewBlock.io. The team apologized for the inconvenience and stressed their focus on resolving the issue quickly.

This incident is the latest in a series of technical challenges facing Zilliqa. In late September 2024, Grid Experienced A more serious disruption is when a bug halts block production entirely, leaving users unable to make transactions or access their funds.

Although the developers provided what they described as a "permanent fix," the issue came on the heels of another bug just two days ago, which slowed down block creation without stopping it entirely. Both incidents occurred shortly after the Zilliqa 2.0 upgrade, which aims to improve network performance and cross-chain compatibility, raising concerns about the reliability of the network infrastructure.

The frequent downtime has clearly angered many in the community, with one user warning that if the outage occurs "before it is widely adopted," potential customers could lose confidence in Zilliqa's reliability.

If these issues are happening now, before true adoption, what confidence can we give potential customers? Downtime and disturbances like this raise serious reliability concerns. How do we ensure this doesn't become the norm during high traffic and usage?

— EgerardCrypto (@EGerardCrypto) January 15, 2025

Meanwhile, another user lamented that these recurring issues are causing standards to “lose their enthusiasm.

Why is Zilliqa going through this kind of problem??? Rules lose excitement

- Mehraneb Hazarikeh (@TheReyofMyriad) January 15, 2025

Zuleika has been plagued by similar disorders before, including A Prevent production slowdowns In May 2024 and December 2023 incident This resulted in transactions being temporarily halted.

While the developers have constantly assured users of network safety and immediate restoration of functionality, these recurring issues point to fundamental challenges in maintaining stability. At the time of writing as of January 16, the price of ZIL is around $0.0225, with a market cap of $435 million.