TON, the Telegram Open Network was recently disrupted by the introduction of a meme coin called the DOGS. On 28 August, TON stopped to take new transactions and create blocks for more than six hours. This was due to an increased activity, after the release of DOGS on August 26.
They declared that the instability of the network was coming from the large expectation of DOGS in Tonk Inu. Tonk Inu is a community platform in TON. The meme coin soon became popular after it was listed on exchanges such as Binance and OKX. It was listed with a trading volume of $1.7 billion in just 10 hours. Nevertheless, the price of token DOGS declined from $0. 0018 to $0.
The last recorded confirmed transaction on the TON blockchain was made in block 45341899. This has left users worried about the network’s performances when there is congestion. The impact led to a 5% decline in Toncoin and saw a 28% reduction in trading volumes. 63%.Toncoin, which has been trending down since then, fell from $5.47 to $5.12.
As a result of the outage, a major cryptocurrency exchange Bybit halted all deposits and withdrawals in the TON network. Maintenance of the blockchain, the job of the validators, became difficult due to an increase in the number of transactions. A member of the TON Foundation said that validators are aware of the fact that they have to restart the network to bring it to its normal state. The constant airdrop of the DOGS memo also caused congestion on the TON network. It slowed down Binance’s upgrade process for the network.
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