# Farcaster clients froze after a chain upgrade merged two hours

Source: https://x.com/CryptoStatuette/status/2114044829193605587
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Farcaster-clients-froze-after-a-chain-upgrade-merged-two-hours?index=0x6adf18b4df6ebd34e1f983cec1abaf907b60c6e46cd1c4df05bb1e3431f99fb1ac016dd2
Submitted by misha on 2026-10-26 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

Farcaster clients froze after a chain upgrade whose final activation schedule was merged about two hours before it took effect, according to a Resistance HQ Diaries post on the @farcaster_xyz account. The author says they found several clients frozen while trying to check whether the "cockroaches" in the network's APIs had been dealt with, and they traced the cause through GitHub to the late-merged upgrade. The post notes a warning hidden in a PS about nodes that would stop working, and says the investigation into the frozen clients and "bend the knee" errors is ongoing.

## Article

GM! Today on @farcaster_xyz Resistance HQ Diaries:

Staryear 2026 | Day 9 of the Resistance

Our new overlords assured us we are absolutely FREE to leave once they execute the cockroaches infesting their APIs. I fully support this. Those bad roaches kept telling us to bend the knee!

However, today we found out sleeping is not compatible with freedom... Who knew?  🤷‍♀️

This morning, my fellow peasants and I were trying to find out whether the cockroaches had been taken care of. To our surprise, we found several farcaster clients frozen in time!

One GitHub archaeological expedition later, we discovered a sneaky chain upgrade whose final activation schedule was merged barely two hours before it took effect!

Perhaps digital felons aren’t on the mailing list but we feel grateful for the warning hidden inside the PS about the nodes that would stop working. 

So it turns out, decentralization means spending your Saturday morning figuring out what our new overlords changed while we were asleep.

We’re still investigating the frozen clients and those “bend the knee” errors. But overall, the decentralized democracy experience is going beautifully. My casts eventually escaped through one client and appeared in another. We are now communicating with our homes via digital carrier pigeons. 🙏

to be continued…