Ethereum scaling network Arbitrum reported a “partial outage” Friday, bringing activity on the Arbitrum One blockchain to a standstill for the first time since June.

Offchain Labs, the company that developed Arbitrum, announced that the network stalled at 10:29am ET Friday due to “a significant surge in network traffic.” The issue remained unresolved for well over an hour, ultimately resuming at 11:57am ET.

Friday afternoon, Offchain Labs confirmed that the cause of the activity surge was indeed an abundance of “inscriptions,” as widely suspected—that is, artwork and media being etched onto the blockchain, akin to NFTs but entirely on-chain.

“We can confirm that a sustained surge of inscriptions triggered the sequencer to stop relaying transactions properly,” the Arbitrum account tweeted. “We’ve resolved this

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