Key Points
- TON is now back online, producing blocks normally.
- Earlier, the blockchain experienced a disruption in block production.
The team behind TON announced that they are back online, following the block production disruption experienced earlier by the blockchain.
In an announcement via X, they announced that TON is now producing blocks normally.
TON's Block Production Disruption
Earlier today, the TON Blockchain experienced a disruption in block production. The team behind TON shared a post via X, explaining that the issue occurred due to an abnormal load currently on TON.
According to them, several validators were unable to clean the database of old transactions, which triggered consensus loss.
TON Core issued a call to validators to restart at 4 am (UTC) today. They noted that if enough validators would restart, the consensus would be reestablished.
They also told users to rest assured that their transactions would be made and no crypto assets would be lost due to the issue.
This morning, Tonscan data showed that the TON network had not generated any blocks for over 7 hours, and the latest block was generated at 06:11:46 (UTC+8).
The main reason for the issue was reportedly the network congestion caused by the distribution of DOGS tokens.
Network Overload Due to DOGS Distribution
Justin, a member of the TON foundation shared a post via X earlier, saying the following:
- Network overload was due to DOGS transaction overload
- Garbage collection overloaded many validators for enough time for them to lose consensus
- To restore consensus validators would be called upon to restart around 4:00 (UTC) with specific flags
Garbage collection is an operation that defines database cleaning of data of old transactions and blocks.
DOGS started trading on August 26, on CEXs including Binance, Bybit, OKX, LBank, and Bitget.
According to Telegram Wallet, the release of DOGS triggered a few outages at exchanges and some wallet functions were running less smoothly than usual.
