Did Solana Suffer Another Network Outage?
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One other Raydium AcceleRaytor IDO brought on main congestion on Solana yesterday. Though transaction confirmations slowed, it seems the community didn’t undergo an outage this time.
Solana Transactions Gradual
Solana retains having bother processing transactions.
The high-throughput blockchain noticed its transaction pace per second drop roughly 50% yesterday as customers scrambled to take part in Raydium’s newest AcceleRaytor preliminary DEX providing (IDO). Though many customers have been annoyed that their transactions took longer to course of, the community didn’t go offline because it did throughout a earlier IDO.
Tasks use preliminary DEX choices to launch their tokens and promote them to the general public by way of a decentralized change, in any other case referred to as a DEX. Distribution strategies differ, however for a lot of, an IDO is an opportunity to purchase a mission’s tokens early earlier than it will increase in worth.
Yesterday’s IDO was for Realy, a Metaverse mission on Solana aiming to mix social networking, e-commerce, gaming, and buying and selling. Like many different Raydium IDOs earlier than it, allocations for the Realy providing have been extremely wanted. In an effort to achieve an edge through the IDO, many tech-savvy buyers deployed bots to have their transactions processed quicker.
This observe of utilizing bots on Raydium IDOs has severely affected the Solana community up to now. In September, bots interacting with Raydium’s IDO for Grape Protocol clogged the community with transactions, inflicting it to halt. The community stayed down for roughly 18 hours as Solana builders and node operators endeavored to deliver the community again on-line.
It’s potential that fixes carried out because the Grape Protocol IDO helped Solana keep on-line on this event, regardless of the excessive community site visitors brought on by bots. Crypto Briefing reached out to Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko for remark however didn’t obtain a response at press time.
Disclosure: On the time of scripting this characteristic, the writer owned SOL and a number of other different cryptocurrencies.
