Layer-1 blockchain Aptos Network has resumed normal operations following a five-hour disruption that “impacted” network transactions.
According to the AptoScan network tracker, on-chain transactions on the Move-based blockchain ceased at 23:11 UTC on October 18 at block 104621314.
Aptos appeared to corroborate the outage on X (previously Twitter), stating:
“Your energy for Aptos One was so electric, you cut the lights!”
The team added at the time that “transactions on the network have been impacted” and that it was “working diligently” to rectify the problem.
The outage prompted crypto exchanges Upbit and OKX to notify users of network maintenance and suspend Aptos deposits and withdrawals.
Before the outage, Aptos Labs published a birthday message stating, “It’s been a year since Aptos Mainnet burst onto the scene.”
Former Meta employees who worked on Facebook’s Diem blockchain created Aptos, a venture capital-backed initiative that launched on October 17, 2022.
It may be outage season, as Aptos is not the only chain to experience an outage in recent weeks.
The Theta Network team announced on October 19 that a recent node upgrade caused an “edge case bug” that halted block production on the primary chain for several hours.
It was also stated that a repair had been implemented and the network was again operating normally.
In September, the Coinbase layer-2 network Base experienced its first significant outage since its inception the month prior.
