Silicon Network Is Shutting Down: You Have Until December 31 to Bridge Your Balance Out

Silicon Network, an Ethereum layer 2 from the orbit of the South Korean exchange Korbit, is being shut down. Since September 2, 2026 the bridge has accepted no further deposits. Anyone still holding a balance there can bring it back to Ethereum until December 31, 2026 at 12:00 Korean time. After that the explorer closes, the network is terminated, and whatever has been left behind cannot, according to the operator, be recovered.

This news affects very few investors in Germany directly. Silicon Network was never a large chain, and anyone who never bridged there has nothing to do. The case is interesting all the same, because it shows with rare clarity what a dying blockchain looks like: the chain keeps running, it produces a block every three seconds, the web interface is reachable, the explorer answers. It simply no longer carries anything. We measured this ourselves in the night before September 4, and the result appears further down.

The Silicon Network shutdown plan: two dates that count

The operators have split the sequence into two sections in their service notice. The first date has passed: on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, the bridge stopped accepting new deposits, and the testnet was shut down. From that day on there is no route up onto the chain any more, only down from it.

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