zkSync Eras elegant fix for 921 ETH ‘stuck forever’ in smart contract

Matter Labs, the team behind Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution zkSync, has confirmed that 921 Ether (ETH) worth $1.7 million is currently stuck in one of its new smart contracts, GemstoneIDO.　　However, the firm claims the funds to be “safe” and to have found an “elegant” solution to transfer the funds out, which accumulated during its token sale.　　While initially stating that the funds wont be “stuck forever,” Matter Labs explained in its most recent tweet that it has found an “elegant solution” that will be able to “unfreeze” the GemstoneIDO contract and transfer the funds out.　　@GemholicECO, who ran into a problem with their smart contract on zkSync Era, has reached out to us for support, which we provided.　　Wed like to give the community an update and further context on their issue in full transparency, as we always have and always will.　　— zkSync ∎ (@zksync) April 7, 2023　　Matter Labs identified the issue to have stemmed from the .transfer() function in the GemstoneIDO smart contract, which is part of a project run by the GemholicECO ecosystem.　　Matter Labs said that the issue could have been prevented had they deployed the contract on a testnet first.　　“Unfortunately, the contracts were deployed on Era mainnet without having