One of the most popular decentralized cryptocurrency wallets metamaskThe fact that there were some cuts in , made the investors nervous.
Your problem in metamask Ethereum not related to the network and infuraIt turned out that it was caused by an outage in .
It was stated that the problem in question was not a problem with the internal funds.
Relationship Between Infura and Metamask
As you know, Metamask is just a wallet where you confirm transactions. By default, Metamask connects to Infura running many Ethereum nodes.
When you want to perform an action, Metamask transmits it to Infura and publishes the action in Infura. Miners were also unable to complete transactions, as transactions could not be broadcast on the network due to the outage in Infura.
Many users were affected by this, as Infura was chosen by Metamask by default. However, you can change it to another network that works manually.
User DCinvestor.eth made a post on Twitter, stating that Ethereum is not closed, the problem in Metamask is related to nodes, and investors can change it manually.
Ethereum is not down
Infura, the default endpoint used to access mainnet via MetaMask is down
there a other endpoints you can use (or link to your own node)
pick one here: https://t.co/D0V0Ij2Tf8
in MetaMask, go under Settings -> Networks and you can change to a working one
— DCinvestor.eth ⌐◨-◨ (@iamDCinvestor) April 22, 2022
Latest Situation in Infura?
For users who do not want to change this, when we look at the latest situation in Infura, the explanations are as follows:
“We are aware of outages on some of our ETH1, Palm, Optimism, Polygon, Filecoin and Arbitrum API endpoints. Currently, the outage is limited to listed components that are temporarily unavailable. We are currently investigating to identify and correct a root cause.
The root cause has been identified and we are working on a fix.
Latest update: We are in the process of rolling out a fix and our core systems are starting to recover. Full service functionality will be restored as the remaining components come back online.”