20.08.2021 Orphaned Blocks in Ethereum Incident Postmortem
Friday night last week (Aug 20), a misconfiguration within Chorus One’s Lido Ethereum beacon chain setup led to a network-wide drop of participation of about 1% (measured by the so-called attestation rates) on the beacon chain. The issue was fixed within hours of the discovery by the involved teams.
How Lido Works
Lido DAO is a community that builds liquid staking service for Ethereum. Lido allows users to earn staking rewards without locking assets or maintaining staking infrastructure. Staking with Lido is primed to start along with Phase 0 of Ethereum 2.0. Upon depositing ether into Lido's smart contracts, a user