$ETH Prysm Releases Post Mortem On 04/12 Ethereum Fusaka Incident, Validators Lost 382 ETH

The Prysm development team has released a detailed post mortem on the Fusaka mainnet incident on 04/12.

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🔸 The incident stemmed from Prysm nodes suffering resource exhaustion. The cause was these nodes reexecuting expensive state calculations when processing asynchronous attestations, causing the system to overload and stall.

🔸 The network missed 41 epochs. Network participation rate dropped to 75%. Validators lost approximately 382 ETH in rewards due to inability to perform duties. The Prysm team released patches in versions v7.0.1 and v7.1.0.

🔸 Over reliance on a single client software is a massive systemic risk. While this incident caused short term losses, it served as a stress test proving Ethereum decentralized mechanism works effectively. A part of the network failed, but the whole system survived.

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