The ability to send transactions has crawled to a halt with some users reporting wait times of up to four hours for finalizing a transaction. Funds are safe, however.
The network has gone into a “self-healing” mode after the bug “caused the entire network to panic.” The team maintains nothing with the core protocol itself is wrong.
Avalanche developers worked overnight on the code break, but will only push an update once the team is “100% confident” it will address the problem.
The Avalanche developer team did not return answers to questions by press time.
This is a developing situation and will be updated.
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