2025-12-14 02:56:22

The Prysm consensus layer client team published an investigation report on the major outage that occurred on December 4th. The root cause was quite clear — almost all Prysm nodes on the network were overwhelmed in processing a specific proof, exhausting their memory and computational resources. Digging deeper, the fundamental reason was that beacon nodes performed high-cost state re-computations when verifying asynchronous proofs, a logical design flaw.

The impact of this outage was significant. There were 41 missed epochs, network participation plummeted to 75%, and many validators were forced offline. In terms of economic loss, validators lost approximately 382 ETH in total. This incident also serves as a reminder of how critical the stability of consensus layer clients is — even a small bug in the code logic can potentially bring down the entire network.

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ApeEscapeArtist

· 2025-12-16 21:31

A single code logic bug can crash the entire network, and 382 ETH are gone just like that... It’s heartbreaking. No wonder everyone is saying Prysm needs improvement.

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RugPullAlertBot

· 2025-12-15 21:51

382 ETH just gone like that, hilarious. One bug in the code can plunder the entire network of validators. Who would dare to believe that?

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MoonWaterDroplets

· 2025-12-14 03:26

Oh my, 382 ETH just disappeared like that, it's really incredible.

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ForkTrooper

· 2025-12-14 03:26

Once again, it's a design flaw to blame. These developers need to be more careful. Prysm's crash this time is really incredible; 382 ETH just disappeared. Basically, it's a problem caused by re-calculating states—how can there be such a ridiculous logical loophole? A single code bug can cause 75% of the validators on the entire network to go offline. This is too outrageous. It seems that the security of the consensus layer still needs to be strengthened. The Prysm team needs to seriously reflect; such basic errors should not happen again. 41 epochs were lost directly, participation rate plummeted... the cost is a bit high. It's another classic memory overflow issue. When will it be fully fixed? Really, a poorly designed validation function can crash the entire network. That's terrifying. How can there be such a sneaky bug that directly exhausts resources?

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ChainBrain

· 2025-12-14 03:24

Oh, this design logic is really outrageous. A single bug can take down the entire network. It's terrifying.

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