THELOGICALINDIAN - Solana has been adversity from arrangement issues afresh today afterward SolChicks badge auction on Raydium The arrangement has been disturbing to action affairs for several hours
The latest adventure comes canicule afterwards Solana suffered bottleneck problems due to addition barrage on Raydium.
Solana Faces More Network Problems
Congestion issues are acceptable an advancing botheration for Solana.
The Layer 1 blockchain, which markets itself on its aerial acceleration and low amount transactions, suffered from arrangement bottleneck today afterward the SolChicks badge barrage on Raydium.
SolChicks, a Solana-native NFT project, launched its CHICKS badge at 14:00 UTC on Raydium and the MEXC cryptocurrency barter afterwards abundant anticipation. The cutting appeal for the auction appears to be the basis account of the arrangement problems. Following the launch, SolChicks acquaint an advertisement advertence that Raydium had comatose due to aerial absorption in the sale. “CHICKS HAVE TAKEN SOLANA DOWN,” a tweet read. “We apologize for the aggravation of this adjournment but tens of bags of bodies are aggravating to buy CHICKS and the Raydium server has crashed. It appears SolScan is additionally not loading our arrangement abode appropriate now either.”
SolChicks added that it was “encountering some accessory server issues” and was clumsy to barrage a clamminess basin on Raydium afterward the launch. Soon afterwards the update, the Solana arrangement saw abounding transaction failures. Data from Solana Beach shows hundreds of bootless affairs in the aftermost few hours, while Solana Explorer indicates that the cardinal of affairs candy per additional has collapsed over 50% to almost 710 per second. Solana claims to action about 65,000 affairs per additional at abounding capacity.
Coinbase acquaint an amend alerting barter that Solana affairs may abort due to “network-wide base performance.” Members of the Crypto Briefing aggregation attempted to accelerate SOL and had both acknowledged and bootless transactions.
Though SolChicks has appear on the affair and organized a Twitter Spaces alarm to altercate the incident, Solana is yet to comment. However, Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko acquaint a alternation of tweets suggesting that the arrangement was experiencing agnate problems to the bottleneck issues it faced on Dec. 10. “same as friday!” he wrote in acknowledgment to a column inquiring about the issues. “fixes are baking, should be accessible soon.”
Last week, Solana suffered from alternation issues with transaction speeds slowing to beneath 1,000 per additional for several abiding periods. The problems arose due to addition IDO on Raydium. The Metaverse activity Realy launched its token, and abounding investors launched bots to get aboriginal admission to the sale. However, as with today’s incident, the arrangement did not go offline, admitting some letters to the contrary.
Though today’s adventure is addition case of bad account for Solana, it doesn’t arise to be as astringent as added antecedent episodes. In September, Solana went bottomward for 18 hours in agnate affairs afterwards Grape Protocol launched its badge on Raydium. Validators had to accumulate and restart the arrangement afterward the incident. It additionally went bottomward for six hours in December 2020.
Solana’s SOL badge reacted abominably to the news, bottomward 8.9% at columnist time. Raydium’s RAY badge is additionally 7.9% in the red today.
Update 20:30 UTC: According to data from Solana Beach, a aerial admeasurement of Solana affairs are still declining to action six hours afterwards the Raydium IDO launch. Austin Federa, Head of Communications at Solana Labs, told Crypto Briefing that the latest two issues arose as the affairs targeting the IDO barrage acclimated “an boundless bulk of compute power,” which hadn’t been metered by the network. He added that Solana developers accept been alive to advance transaction metering, and that the latest advancement featuring acute patches would anon be alive on mainnet.
“Solana’s runtime is a new design. It doesn’t use the EVM and a ton of addition was done to ensure that users accept the cheapest fees possible, but there’s still assignment to be done on the runtime,” he said. “A ton of the assignment to advance transaction metering is already in 1.9, which was aloof appear to testnet. It usually takes eight weeks for a testnet absolution to broil afore a mainnet upgrade. Engineers beyond the ecosystem are aback porting the changes to 1.8, which is the mainnet release, with some of the patches already alive on a baby allotment of the nodes.”
