The Open Community (TON), the blockchain community linked to Telegram, has resumed operations following a major outage that lasted practically six hours because of a spike in community site visitors.
In an Aug. 28 publish on X, TON confirmed it was again on-line and producing blocks as traditional.
What brought about the outage?
Some group members speculated that the outage could be linked to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov‘s current arrest in France.
On Aug. 21, Durov was arrested in Paris and was charged with facilitating unlawful transactions, refusing to cooperate with legislation enforcement, and permitting varied illegal actions to happen on the social messaging software.
Nevertheless, the top of TON Ventures, Ian Wittkopp, clarified that the outage was attributable to the excessive quantity of transactions from airdropping over $550 million in worth to the group by way of the DOGS memecoin token issuance. He added that this may need been TON’s highest day of energetic customers.
DOGS is a memecoin related to the Telegram group. The venture, launched on Aug. 26, attracted important consideration because of its distinctive airdrop method. On Aug. 27, blockchain explorer Tonscan reported that the memecoin had generated substantial site visitors, which brought about some “central providers” to be briefly suspended.
TON corroborated this and defined that the community had seen irregular load exercise, which overwhelmed a number of validators and prevented them from clearing outdated transactions. This resulted in a lack of consensus.
On Telegram, TON said:
“On account of excessive current exercise (>20m transactions in current 2 days), rubbish assortment overloaded a lot of validators for sufficient time for them to misplaced consensus with one another.”
In blockchain networks, validators confirm transactions inside blocks. When block manufacturing stops, transactions go unconfirmed, inflicting service disruptions.
TON phases restoration
Regardless of the numerous outage, the TON’s community token worth defied the broader market development, dropping a light 1.3% over the previous 24 hours whereas different main cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum dropped by a median of 6% throughout the identical interval.
In the meantime, some crypto group members noticed the outage as a constructive signal for TON, likening it to earlier outages on different important blockchains like Solana and Avalanche. They argued that such disruptions on layer-1 networks typically sign excessive adoption.