ChainCatcher news, Base protocol head Jesse Pollak posted on platform X stating that Base has resumed full operation after experiencing a decline in network performance. The team is monitoring the situation and will share a complete review. Previously, Jesse Pollak posted on platform X that on September 21 at 23:38 (Beijing time), the Base team discovered that the performance of its mainnet was declining, including issues with the mainnet (public RPC API, deposits, withdrawals, batch submissions, block production), which led to transaction delays. The team has acknowledged the issue and is working to fix it.

ChainCatcher news, the NEAR protocol announced that the number of shards in its mainnet has increased from 4 to 6, which upgrades the network's transaction processing capacity by 50%.It is expected that by the end of Q2 2024, NEAR will also launch the "stateless validation" feature on the mainnet, which is expected to further increase the throughput of each shard by 5 times.

ChainCatcher news, Austin Federa, the strategic head of the Solana Foundation, stated that Solana will improve transaction prioritization through the introduction of three new mechanisms to alleviate network congestion. These three mechanisms are:Priority Fees: Used to calculate resources/transaction packaging when it becomes a bottleneck, essentially similar to the practice of increasing Gas fees in other blockchain networks, with global properties.Local Fee Markets: Used for bottlenecks that arise when multiple parties compete for the same state resources, with local properties.Stake Weighted QoS: A mechanism for identifying witch attacks and spam transactions, which can be used in conjunction with the first two mechanisms or independently, with global properties.Federa emphasized that on Solana, these three functions are not mutually exclusive but provide flexible options for validator nodes. Validators can utilize different combinations based on their configurations, priorities, and specific situations to achieve similar goals.Additionally, there are some other non-protocol layer solutions, such as MEV relayers. The currently deployed V0.5 version will undoubtedly bring some externality issues that need to be addressed over time through protocol governance.However, Federa believes that, in comparison, launching new features as soon as possible and then making adjustments based on real data is a better choice. Federa also specifically clarified that this update does not change the costs of running a validator node, the required staking (still 1 SOL), the participation threshold for validation (still permissionless), or the base fees and rewards that validators can earn.

ChainCatcher message, OP Labs announced on social media that starting from 10 PM today, the OP Mainnet will be paused for 1 hour to test Optimism's event response capability. During the pause, any relevant updates will be posted to status.optimism.io.

ChainCatcher message, Solana Status tweeted, "About 15 minutes ago, the Solana community successfully restored the cluster ------ as network operators recover, engineers will continue to monitor network performance."Previously, the Solana network experienced a fork event that affected TPS yesterday. Validators decided to restart and fork the chain. After the first attempt failed, the issue evolved from slow transaction processing to almost complete interruption of activity on Solana. Validators coordinated with developers from Solana Labs for a second restart, deciding to restart from slot 179526403 instead of 179526408. (source link)