Validators intentionally halted block production on Celo Layer 1 to facilitate the transition to Ethereum Layer 2

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It stated that the Celo L2 Hardfork had begun. Validators had intentionally halted Celo L1 block production as the protocol transitioned to an Ethereum Layer 2. Less than two hours later, block production resumed on Celo L2, with public RPC (Forno) and indexers coming online shortly after.

Earlier today, Celo started its transition by halting its L1 block production. At around 04:10 UTC, cLabs announced that the “block production has officially resumed on Celo L2,” hinting at a successful migration.