Robinhood Chain Produces Blocks Despite App Disruption

Roland's Layer-2 network, an Ethereum layer-2 chain, continued to produce blocks despite a roughly 40-minute app disruption on September 4. A new measurement corrected CryptoSlate's earlier report that block production stopped for at least 14 minutes.

Glass Hull's analysis showed that the network produced 854,255 blocks across all 1,440 minutes of September 4 UTC, with the longest gap between consecutive recorded block timestamps being two seconds. In the minute beginning 12:57 UTC, the reported start of the supposed halt, the chain produced 592 blocks.

CryptoSlate's earlier report claimed that block production had halted for at least 14 minutes, but this was found to be incorrect. Glass Hull measured a different 14-minute total: two separate pauses in posting Robinhood Chain transaction data to Ethereum from 12:29:47 to 12:38:23 UTC and from 12:42:47 to 12:48:11 UTC. Both ended before 12:57, and neither interrupted the chain's block production.

A layer-2 chain can keep making blocks while its separate posting process is delayed.