Starknet Releases Analysis on Recent Mainnet Outage

According to BlockBeats, Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet has released an analysis report regarding the brief mainnet outage that occurred on January 11. The report identifies the cause of the incident as a state inconsistency between the execution layer (blockifier) and the proof layer. This inconsistency arose from a specific combination of cross-function calls and rollbacks, leading the execution layer to incorrectly record a rolled-back state, resulting in transaction execution errors. The affected transactions did not receive L1 finality confirmation. The incident triggered a block reorganization, causing approximately 18 minutes of on-chain activity to be rolled back. This marks the second major disruption since 2025, with a previous outage in September caused by a sequencer vulnerability that led to over five hours of downtime and a rollback of about one hour of on-chain activity.