Robinhood Chain's Data Stopped Reaching Ethereum for 14 Minutes

Robinhood Chain experienced an outage on Friday, but it wasn't what you might think. The network continued to produce blocks at a rate of one every 101 milliseconds throughout the reported 14-minute gap.

The issue lay in the chain's transaction data reaching Ethereum, which went missing for exactly 14 minutes across two gaps. This delay was due to the blob market on Ethereum, specifically how the blob price rose past the ceiling Robinhood Chain's poster had bid.

Arbitrum posted that Ethereum's blob market caused the delay in the second gap, but not the first and longer one, which ran 8 minutes and 36 seconds. During this time, Ethereum blocks carried unused blob slots and priced them at 0.0086 gwei against the poster's standing bid of 0.0616.