Ethereum Mainnet Chain is synced again and our APIs are now operational. We apologize for the downtime and thank you for your patience.
As a summary of what happened:
- The go-ethereum client on Ethereum caused an unplanned hard fork between older and newer releases (more details here)
- As a policy we do not update systemically to the latest version unless strictly required as it's generally risky. We only update when the go-ethereum maintainers flag it as required. In this case the risk of forking was completely unannounced so we noticed just with everyone, when it happened.
- Luckily we already had an upgraded version almost ready. We patched and re-tested the update as quickly as we possibly could and we're now starting to sync back from the correct fork.
