Blast incident
Mainnet block production halted due to Ethereum's Dencun upgrade
Blast experienced a major incident on March 13, 2024, lasting 1h 5m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- resolved Mar 15, 2024, 10:22 AM UTC
The Blast Mainnet sequencer stopped producing new blocks from 14:05 to 15:10 UTC. The root cause was the node software’s incomplete support of Ethereum’s post-Dencun block header shape and the decision to strictly validate all L1 block headers.
- postmortem Mar 15, 2024, 10:27 AM UTC
Post mortem found [here](https://safe-violet-16b.notion.site/2024-03-13-Dencun-Headers-Post-Mortem-f797c90ba1824627b49a460ffd28212e)