If you built in the MLH hackathon this weekend and hit sync or faucet issues on preprod, here’s what was going on and where things stand now.
Both the Nethermind and STL Preprod faucets were down during the Aug 22-23 window alongside unreliable DUST sync. The team routed hackathon participants to build without deploying to Preprod to work around it. A faucet fix landed Aug 28 and should be live now - if you’re still hitting faucet errors, open a ticket
If you’re getting “failed to prove transaction” errors (from the hackathon or otherwise), this is an active escalation with engineering. Log your case with transaction details.
For Preprod cold-sync being slow generally: full chain sync on Preprod takes a while by design. Ask in Discord on #dev-chat and the team can walk you through options.