• Lower than 24 hours after a prolonged outage, the TON blockchain has suffered one other community outage.
• In keeping with TON, the primary trigger is congestion associated to the DOGS airdrop.

Block manufacturing has as soon as once more halted on the Open Community (TON) blockchain. The outage was reported lower than 24 hours after TON got here again on-line after greater than six hours of downtime.

On Wednesday, TON Blockchain introduced that the community overload had been resolved and that the blockchain linked to Telegram was “again on-line.” Nonetheless, the community has stopped processing transactions, and the platform supplied an replace to this impact.

“TON block manufacturing has been suspended since 19:19 UTC,” TON wrote to X. “That is probably because of heavy load brought on by minting DOGS tokens. TON Core is working to resolve this.”

In keeping with the replace, customers' belongings are “not in danger.”

Additional disruptions to TON block manufacturing

The block manufacturing subject started at 19:19 UTC. The interruption seems to be because of a big load brought on by the minting of DOGS tokens. TON Core is engaged on an answer.

We are going to proceed to supply updates because the state of affairs develops.

— TON 💎 (@ton_blockchain) August 28, 2024

TON community shut down after Telegram CEO arrest

TON additionally blamed Tuesday's downtime on congestion on the community following the DOGS airdrop, which was backed by a wide range of main exchanges, together with Binance and Bybit, which delayed their distributions because of points with the TON community.

The surge in exercise was additionally fuelled by the truth that Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is dealing with a number of costs associated to the messaging app. Durov was arrested in France late Saturday and held in police custody for 96 hours. Police launched him from custody and summoned him to look in court docket on his case on August 28.

The occasions surrounding the TON community shutdown and Durov’s arrest precipitated the Toncoin (TON) token to plummet.

The TON token briefly recovered above $5.75 earlier than falling again beneath $5.50. Although it has recouped a few of its losses since Saturday, the coin’s worth stays down 18% over the previous week.