Aurora, the Ethereum-compatible scaling solution built on NEAR, has been offline since 02:16 UTC on Tuesday. The network's mainnet remains inaccessible, and the team has yet to provide an official explanation. The outage comes as Aurora's total value locked has already fallen 99% from its all-time high of $2.5 billion.
What users saw
At around 2:16 UTC, Aurora stopped producing blocks. Users trying to interact with the chain hit errors. Decentralized applications built on Aurora went dark. The outage has now stretched for several hours with no update from the development team.
A steep decline
Aurora's TVL peaked at $2.5 billion during the 2021-2022 bull run. It's since cratered by 99%. The current outage adds to a difficult period for the network, which has struggled to retain users and liquidity as competition among layer-2 and alternative layer-1 solutions intensified.
No official word
As of this writing, Aurora's official social media channels and status page haven't posted any details about the cause of the downtime or an estimated time for restoration. The silence leaves users and developers in the dark. Is it a technical glitch? A security incident? Something else entirely? No one knows.
The next concrete milestone to watch is whether Aurora publishes a post-mortem or at least a status update within the next 24 hours. Without communication, trust in the network's reliability will likely erode further. For now, the chain stays dark and the team stays quiet.
