Osmosis, a Cosmos-based decentralised exchange, has resumed block production after a halt lasting nearly four hours. The platform said service restarted at around 3am UTC on November 13.
In a statement, @osmosis said: "No funds were lost and no blocks were reversed. The network is running normally." The team also thanked validators for working through the night to resolve the issue. $OSMO traded near $0.037 on November 13.
Timeline of the Osmosis Outage
Blockchain infrastructure provider QuickNode reported that
During the halt, the Osmosis status page reported a partial disruption.
It said some services were down, including the mainnet LCD endpoint and the osmosis-1 snapshot service, while the RPC endpoint and app.osmosis.zone remained operational.The halt also affected exchanges.
South Korean exchange Upbit temporarily suspended OSMO deposits and withdrawals on November 13 after the blockchain stopped producing new blocks. Upbit kept OSMO spot trading open as usual during the interruption. Rival exchange Bithumb also issued an OSMO suspension notice. Both Bithumb and Coinbase reported transfer issues on the network.Cause Not Yet Confirmed
The sources reviewed have not publicly confirmed a root cause. One crypto outlet noted that none of the sources it reviewed identified a confirmed cause.
Another outlet reported that the disruption was linked to a network upgrade affecting chain operations, but Osmosis has not confirmed this in the available statement. The market reaction appeared limited.
OSMO traded near $0.037 on November 13, up about 14% over 24 hours, according to CoinGecko figures cited by crypto.news. The outage does not explain the gain, as trading on centralised exchanges can continue without on-chain settlement.Chain halts are not new for the network. In 2022,
Osmosis attributed an earlier outage to a governance proposal, saying validators received different app hashes because of non-determinism. In that instance, Tendermint is designed to halt automatically in such situations to prevent further issues.Sources:
