{
 "title": "Block-production halts of 10 minutes or more, 2026-08-25 to 2026-10-06",
 "publisher": "SwiftNodes",
 "url": "https://swiftnodes.io/blog/chain-halts-aug-oct-2026",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0 (attribute SwiftNodes with a link to the url above)",
 "window": {
  "from": "2026-08-25T00:00:00Z",
  "to": "2026-10-07T00:00:00Z"
 },
 "method": "Gap between consecutive block timestamps above max(600 s, 30 x median block time). Chains that only produce blocks when there are transactions are excluded unless the first block after the gap shows a transaction backlog.",
 "chains_scanned": [
  "0g",
  "abcore",
  "abstract",
  "adi",
  "apechain",
  "arbitrum",
  "arbitrum-nova",
  "arc",
  "astar",
  "aurora",
  "avalanche",
  "axelar",
  "babylon",
  "base",
  "beam",
  "berachain",
  "bitlayer",
  "bittorrent",
  "blast",
  "bob",
  "boba",
  "bsc",
  "bsquared",
  "celo",
  "chiliz",
  "core",
  "cosmos",
  "creditcoin",
  "cronos",
  "cronos-zkevm",
  "doma",
  "dydx",
  "edge",
  "etc",
  "eth",
  "etherlink",
  "fantom",
  "flare",
  "fraxtal",
  "fuse",
  "gnosis",
  "gravity",
  "gravity-alpha",
  "haqq",
  "hashkey",
  "hemi",
  "hyperliquid",
  "immutable-zkevm",
  "ink",
  "iotex",
  "jovay",
  "kaia",
  "katana",
  "kava",
  "kite",
  "lens",
  "linea",
  "lisk",
  "manta",
  "mantle",
  "megaeth",
  "merlin",
  "metal-l2",
  "metis",
  "mezo",
  "moca",
  "mode",
  "monad",
  "morph",
  "mova",
  "neo-x",
  "neutron",
  "okt-chain",
  "opbnb",
  "optimism",
  "orderly",
  "osmosis",
  "peaq",
  "pharos",
  "plasma",
  "playnance",
  "polygon",
  "pulsechain",
  "robinhood",
  "ronin",
  "rootstock",
  "scroll",
  "shibarium",
  "somnia",
  "soneium",
  "sonic",
  "starknet",
  "story",
  "superseed",
  "syscoin",
  "tac",
  "taiko",
  "tea",
  "telos",
  "tempo",
  "tron-evm",
  "unichain",
  "viction",
  "wemix",
  "worldchain",
  "xlayer",
  "xrpl-evm",
  "zetachain",
  "zksync",
  "zora"
 ],
 "excluded_on_demand": [
  "arbitrum-nova",
  "beam",
  "kite",
  "playnance",
  "haqq",
  "lens"
 ],
 "not_covered": [
  "akash",
  "celestia",
  "dymension",
  "filecoin",
  "injective",
  "sei",
  "stable"
 ],
 "halts": [
  {
   "chain": "tac",
   "last_block_before": 24671476,
   "first_block_after": 24671477,
   "stopped_at": "2026-08-22T23:58:13Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-09-02T13:52:48Z",
   "duration_s": 913475,
   "source": "direct block read",
   "context": "Validators halted the chain after a Cosmos EVM precompile exploit (2026-08-22)."
  },
  {
   "chain": "zetachain",
   "last_block_before": 18349555,
   "first_block_after": 18349556,
   "stopped_at": "2026-08-25T12:59:23Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-08-25T16:52:00Z",
   "duration_s": 13957,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "During the Cosmos EVM vulnerability response (2026-08-20..25)."
  },
  {
   "chain": "zetachain",
   "last_block_before": 18349556,
   "first_block_after": 18349557,
   "stopped_at": "2026-08-25T16:52:00Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-08-25T17:02:35Z",
   "duration_s": 635,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "During the Cosmos EVM vulnerability response (2026-08-20..25)."
  },
  {
   "chain": "zetachain",
   "last_block_before": 18350449,
   "first_block_after": 18350450,
   "stopped_at": "2026-08-25T18:23:58Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-08-25T19:05:43Z",
   "duration_s": 2505,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "During the Cosmos EVM vulnerability response (2026-08-20..25)."
  },
  {
   "chain": "adi",
   "last_block_before": 1079470,
   "first_block_after": 1079471,
   "stopped_at": "2026-08-29T08:52:26Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-08-29T09:53:27Z",
   "duration_s": 3661,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": null
  },
  {
   "chain": "cronos",
   "last_block_before": 90896189,
   "first_block_after": 90896190,
   "stopped_at": "2026-08-30T12:38:55Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-08-30T23:49:01Z",
   "duration_s": 40206,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "Validators halted the chain after the Tectonic lending exploit (2026-08-30)."
  },
  {
   "chain": "cronos",
   "last_block_before": 90899650,
   "first_block_after": 90899651,
   "stopped_at": "2026-08-31T01:01:43Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-08-31T04:46:16Z",
   "duration_s": 13473,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "Validators halted the chain after the Tectonic lending exploit (2026-08-30)."
  },
  {
   "chain": "cronos",
   "last_block_before": 90916997,
   "first_block_after": 90916998,
   "stopped_at": "2026-08-31T07:08:28Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-08-31T09:20:34Z",
   "duration_s": 7926,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "Validators halted the chain after the Tectonic lending exploit (2026-08-30)."
  },
  {
   "chain": "tac",
   "last_block_before": 24671477,
   "first_block_after": 24671478,
   "stopped_at": "2026-09-02T13:52:48Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-09-02T14:34:04Z",
   "duration_s": 2476,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "Validators halted the chain after a Cosmos EVM precompile exploit (2026-08-22)."
  },
  {
   "chain": "cosmos",
   "last_block_before": 32830001,
   "first_block_after": 32830002,
   "stopped_at": "2026-09-05T12:03:37Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-09-05T12:21:07Z",
   "duration_s": 1051,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": null
  },
  {
   "chain": "scroll",
   "last_block_before": 34992722,
   "first_block_after": 34992723,
   "stopped_at": "2026-09-11T12:12:30Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-09-11T12:36:44Z",
   "duration_s": 1454,
   "source": "sampler + on-chain check",
   "context": null
  },
  {
   "chain": "babylon",
   "last_block_before": 4511101,
   "first_block_after": 4511102,
   "stopped_at": "2026-09-14T12:01:43Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-09-14T12:14:00Z",
   "duration_s": 737,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": null
  },
  {
   "chain": "starknet",
   "last_block_before": 15001964,
   "first_block_after": 15001965,
   "stopped_at": "2026-09-17T07:08:16Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-09-17T07:18:30Z",
   "duration_s": 614,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": null
  },
  {
   "chain": "neutron",
   "last_block_before": 61635574,
   "first_block_after": 61635575,
   "stopped_at": "2026-09-22T07:43:57Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-09-25T13:28:59Z",
   "duration_s": 279902,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "Halted after a governance attack on Neutron (2026-09-22)."
  },
  {
   "chain": "cosmos",
   "last_block_before": 33086741,
   "first_block_after": 33086742,
   "stopped_at": "2026-09-22T11:18:23Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-09-23T12:06:23Z",
   "duration_s": 89280,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "Validators halted the Hub to contain funds from the Neutron attack; restarted with Gaia v28.3.0."
  },
  {
   "chain": "taiko",
   "last_block_before": 11802685,
   "first_block_after": 11802686,
   "stopped_at": "2026-09-24T08:11:53Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-09-24T08:34:07Z",
   "duration_s": 1334,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": null
  },
  {
   "chain": "neutron",
   "last_block_before": 61635575,
   "first_block_after": 61635576,
   "stopped_at": "2026-09-25T13:28:59Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-09-25T13:48:10Z",
   "duration_s": 1151,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "Halted after a governance attack on Neutron (2026-09-22)."
  },
  {
   "chain": "neutron",
   "last_block_before": 61635577,
   "first_block_after": 61635578,
   "stopped_at": "2026-09-25T13:55:58Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-09-25T14:18:24Z",
   "duration_s": 1346,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "Halted after a governance attack on Neutron (2026-09-22)."
  },
  {
   "chain": "starknet",
   "last_block_before": 15976888,
   "first_block_after": 15976889,
   "stopped_at": "2026-10-06T08:17:13Z",
   "resumed_at": "2026-10-06T08:56:09Z",
   "duration_s": 2336,
   "source": "segment scan",
   "context": "The 2026-10-06 gap coincides with the scheduled v0.14.4 upgrade (announced as ~10 minutes)."
  }
 ]
}