In a recent development, the TON Foundation has announced that the TON blockchain is back to producing blocks normally.
In a recent development, the TON Foundation has announced that the TON blockchain is back to producing blocks normally after experiencing a disruption that caused the network to stop generating new blocks for several hours.
According to data from the TON transaction scanner Dton.io, the TON blockchain is now back online, with the network counting 231,879,089 blocks at the time of writing.
The TON Foundation reported the issue on its X page on Aug. 28 at 5:30 am UTC, stating, "TON is now producing blocks normally! We are back online."
The outage was allegedly caused by an abnormal load on the network, which led to issues with database cleaning for several validators, causing the network to lose consensus and halt block production.
In an effort to restart the network, the TON Foundation called on validators to restart their nodes with specific flags to reestablish consensus. The disruption led to the temporary suspension of deposits and withdrawals linked to the network by major cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance and Bybit.
The outage coincided with the recent airdrop of Dogs (DOGS), a new TON-based memecoin designed to embody the spirit and culture of the Telegram community. The launch of Dogs has driven significant congestion on the TON network due to users' rising interest in the ecosystem.
The TON Foundation has assured users that all crypto transactions will be processed and that no assets will be lost due to the brief block production disruption. The network's native token, Toncoin, experienced a dip in price following the outage but has since recovered.
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