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Christine Kim (Galaxy) on Ethereum’s Finality Issue

Galaxy Brains

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The Ethereum Consensus Layer Was Unable to Reach Finality for Two Hours-Long Periods

Einstein: There was an interesting issue that was happening on Ethereum last week. He says two clients, Prism and Techoo, were having difficulty processing old attestation. The nodes couldn't process new attestations when validators were trying to progress the chain. And so that's why you had a period of delayed finality - because nodes weren't processing their attestations correctly.

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