THELOGICALINDIAN - Dfinitys Internet Computer faces issues with its firstever NFT accumulating alleged ICPunks
Internet Computer, a scalable blockchain developed by the Dfinity Foundation, faced abstruse glitches in its first-ever NFT drop.
Internet Computer Struggles With NFT Drop
On Sept. 1, ICPunks, the aboriginal anytime NFT accumulating was launched on Internet Computer Protocol (ICP). However, the accomplished action was bedridden by arrangement issues.
ICPunks is a accumulating of 10,000 unique, about generated clowns, and is a comedy on the American Hip-hop duo the Insane Clown Posse, with which the arrangement shares the ICP acronym. ICPunks could be minted for free; however, back users tried, they appear actuality clumsy to amount the appliance and affirmation their NFT.
A report by Igor Lilic, who active developer relations at Dfinity declared the arrangement was “not confined absolute user cartage anywhere abutting to the abstract best rate.” The final aftereffect was that the subnet hosting the NFT brazier (smart contract) struggled to appropriately collaborate with the ICPunks’ website.
The NFT minting went alive at about 20:00 UTC on Sept. 1. According to the ICPunks developers, 180k bodies were online to affirmation the chargeless NFTs, and it was the aboriginal time the arrangement had accomplished such a aerial aggregate of traffic. Soon afterwards the minting began, users appear not actuality able to collaborate with the NFT dApp.
What appears to accept happened is that a accurate subnet, an alone arrangement aural the Internet Computer that hosted the NFT contract, could not administer the bulk of traffic. The accepted subnet architectonics has not been configured to handle a aerial aggregate of users interacting with it.
The nodes aural that subnet (pjljw) had been configured to absolute users’ requests to concern and amend calls whenever it detected actual aerial traffic. This was implemented to abstain spam attacks and anticipate abnegation of account on the network. Unfortunately, this aegis backfired.
Other canisters aural the subnet NNS app and Distrikt were disrupted too. Outside subnets aural the IC additionally “experienced base performance” due to aerial traffic.
Despite the congestion, the subnet (pjljw) brazier was able to accomplishment the NFT drop, and the minting of 10,000 NFTs was accomplished aural 30 minutes.
In the end, the capital complaint from the angle of end-users was poor arrangement performance. The user acquaintance was so bad that several NFT claimers acquaint about the adventure on amusing media, aggressively calling out the NFT drop, some alike claiming that the accomplished affair was a “scam.”
The adventure is not the aboriginal to authenticate arrangement issues with IC. Several canicule afore the NFT drop, a developer from DFinance, a DeFi activity architecture on IC, reported arrangement issues during a testnet accident of alone 9000 users.
Anticipating the advertising about the launch, the ICPunks aggregation had already migrated website hosting from IC to their centralized servers. Despite hosting the website themselves, the aggregation accepted that the Internet Computer was “very laggy.”
Community associates accept additionally acicular out that the subnet was single-threaded and acclimated alone 1 of 64 cores. Therefore, ironically, during the NFT drop, while the subnet maxed out its performance, added cores were idle. This agency the subnet was active at a abundant lower accouterments accommodation than it should accept been.
Critics say IC is not ill-fitted to assassinate a all-embracing NFT launch, let abandoned apparatus a web-scale dApp platform. Kyle Peacock, a software architect at Dfinity, admitted that IC’s “current architectonics needs to change to abutment aerial cartage contest like this.”
NFT Drop Adds To Previous Criticism
The Dfinity Foundation aloft funds from top crypto VCs, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and Polychain Capital. However, afterwards the arrangement genesis, the Dfinity Foundation faced acute criticism for ICP badge distribution.
While the aggregation has accustomed IC’s adequacy to accomplish web scalability and become a apple computer, the actual aboriginal NFT bead on the arrangement does not approve that claim. The arrangement is still in the beta phase, and accordingly it is hoped that the IC aggregation will advance the arrangement basement soon.
Disclosure: The columnist owns beneath than $50 account of ICP tokens.
