V God posted today, giving the community a reassuring message — even if Ethereum occasionally "drops offline" and loses finality, it's not the end of the world.

His core point is straightforward:
**Don't prioritize stamping incorrect blocks as confirmed; timely confirmation is more important.**

Even if due to a client bug, finality is delayed by a few hours, the chain itself will still produce blocks as usual, and operations will continue without stopping.

A computer science PhD, Fabrizio, gave an interesting analogy: "When Ethereum temporarily loses finality, it actually becomes more like Bitcoin."

He also explained how ETH's finality works:
→ When a block receives votes from over 66% of validators, it is first marked as "justified"
→ Then, after two epochs (which means 64 blocks), it is "finalized"

Polygon also issued a statement detailing the specific impacts:
• Infrastructure will be affected, especially cross-chain bridges that rely on finality
• The Polygon mainnet itself is functioning normally
• But assets transferring from Ethereum to sidechains will be stuck, waiting
• Transactions from ETH to L2 via AggLayer will also queue, waiting for finality to be restored

In plain terms:
**The chain hasn't stopped, but cross-chain operations will be slower.**