Dash Network Halts Block Production for Over 12 Hours

Popular blockchain protocol Dash has been unable to produce blocks for half a day now as it halted production early Monday morning, the network’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Samuel Westrich stated in a tweet.

Westrich associated the downtime with a stalled upgrade as the dev team tried to activate v19 of Dash Core. The hardfork was initially announced on April 14 and was intended to remodel how the nodes and wallets function.

Dev Discovers Error

One of Dash’s core developers, Pasta, updated users hours later in a tweet that the team had discovered the hitch in the upgrade and was making efforts to fix it.

“We’ve continued to investigate over the last 8 hours. We’ve identified a few issues and are working on a fix. We will have a hot fix release in the near future. There are two options we are investigating, and everyone is focused on promptly resolving this issue,” Pasta tweeted.

Pasta continued, noting that the network’s two options are either to halt the upgrade to v19 and fix the issue or resolve the issue and release a version that would solve the problems encountered during the update.

The developer noted that they prefer the latter option but are also considering the necessity of getting the blockchain running. Furthermore, Pasta stated that blocks and transactions in the Dash blockchain, with the exception of ChainLocked and InstantSend, should not be assumed finalized until the upgrade is completed.

Dash Releases Hot Fix

At 6.33 PM GMT+1, the Dash blockchain released a hot fix for Core v19. Core developer Pasta stated that the released version would resolve the chain stall once a sufficient number of masternodes and miners have upgraded.

However, Pasta noted that the release is limited to Linux binaries, stating that the network will release macOS and Windows binaries soon. He also said that users would need to reindex if they encountered a crash.