Key Points
- There is an ongoing incident on the Phantom wallet, according to the current status.
- Official reports revealed that the major downtime followed the Grass airdrop.
According to official reports, the Phantom wallet is experiencing downtime due to a major backend incident. Phantom is the main Solana and multi-chain Web 3 wallet.
Phantom Is Experiencing an Uptime Incident
In an official announcement via their X account, the team at Phantom announced that they are currently experiencing an uptime incident and some services may be temporarily disrupted.
They told users that if they are in urgent need of making a transaction, they should ignore the simulation errors and try using a dApp.
Phantom also told users that the team is currently working to resolve the ongoing issue.
On the official Phantom website, the current status shows that there is an ongoing incident, triggered by a backend issue.
According to the official notes, the browser extension, the Phantom mobile app, and the website are operational, along with the external dependencies.
The issue occurred earlier today, less than 2 hours ago, and according to Phantom’s monitoring system, the Service Phantom Backend seems to be down, and it became unresponsive.
The backend downtime came following the live launch of Grass Airdrop.
GRASS Airdrop Triggered Phantom Wallet Downtime
The GRASS Airdrop went live about an hour ago, according to official data shared via X, and the token was listed on important changes including KuCoin, Bitget, Bybit, Gate.io, and more.
The Grass network went live earlier, and according to the Grass Foundation, the claiming window for GRASS will end on January 15, 2025.
The airdrop was announced back in September, with 2 million active users set to receive tokens. The network is powered by over 3 million users running nodes to scrape petabytes of data for AI models.
Grass is a Solana-based AI data layer and the project’s airdrop was a stress test for Phantom’s stability.
Despite the wallet’s issues, the Solana network continues to function normally, handling the increased load without interruptions.
