THELOGICALINDIAN - Sunflower Farmers is arresting about 42 of all gas fees on Polygon
A bold alleged Sunflower Farmers is causing Polygon gas fees to fasten several times their accustomed rate.
Sunflower Farmers Game Creates Issues
Polygon is experiencing arrangement bottleneck due to a bold alleged Sunflower Farmers.
Sunflower Famers, a play-to-earn bold launched at the end of Dec. 2021, has acquired gas fees to access by 16 times on the Polygon Network—a widely-used sidechain to Ethereum. As a result, Polygon users accept complained about bottleneck issues on amusing media channels. In the aftermost 24 hours, Sunflower Famers has become the better gas auto on the network, consuming 42% of all transaction fees on Polygon.
The gas fees alike created troubles for assertive dApps. For instance, Double Protocol, an NFT rental protocol, alike announced it was apathetic the absolution of its Alpha Pass, which was appointed for today.
A few affidavit can explain why the agriculture-themed bold has led to Polygon’s gas fee woes. Firstly, its acute arrangement rewards players with Sunflower Farm (SFF) tokens for every bold action. So players are assured of earning tokens by consistently assuming tasks such as planting and agriculture crops. The becoming tokens can be acclimated to acquirement in-game NFTs and pay for added benefits.
Secondly, the bold incentivizes gamers to angrily attempt to acreage as abounding badge rewards as possible. The game’s tokenomics stipulates that aboriginal players acquire a abundant college allotment of rewards. The badge accumulation rapidly becomes deflationary over time to drive scarcity.
Players attractive to access a beyond allotment of the bold tokens are leveraging aerial gas fees to ensure their affairs are accustomed to new blocks on Polygon. Players can allow to do that as the accepted farmed badge amount outweighs gas pricing.
Security analyst Thomas Kerbl noted in a Twitter column that the incentivized agriculture bold may accept admiring a “ton of bots aggravating to abstract value.” DappRadar shows that Sunflower Farmers candy almost 1.1 actor affairs from added than 330,000 users during the aftermost day.
Since yesterday, gas fees on Polygon accept jumped from about 30 Gwei (or almost $0.03) to almost 500 Gwei, admired at $0.44, per PolygonScan. The fees additionally surged accomplished 1000 Gwei (about $1) abounding times during the bottleneck period. The bearings has fueled apropos over how a distinct dApp can actualize a gas fee billow of this kind.
Despite this, Polygon’s gas fees abide actual bargain compared to Ethereum, area a distinct transaction costs anywhere amid $50 to $100 at the moment.
Furthermore, Polygon has not had any downtime, which added blockchains like Solana accept succumbed to recently. For example, in December 2021, Solana, a notable Layer 1, was arctic for several hours and could not action new blocks due to an oversubscribed IDO launch.
The Polygon aggregation has not yet announced about how it affairs to abode bottleneck created by dApps such as Sunflower Farmers. In accession to active their flagship sidechain, Polygon’s ascent armory consists of zero-knowledge Layer 2 solutions like Hermez and Mir. Such solutions may advice the activity accommodated approaching scalability challenges.
