Bots tied to a new non-fungible token project built on Solana caused a seven-hour network outrage on Saturday, project developers confirmed in a post on Tuesday. By shauryamalwa
However, on Saturday night millions of transactions flooded the network each second. This led to network validators – or entities that process transactions on and support the network – to run out of memory and crash, developers said.
Validators ran out of memory while trying to clear up transactions in other, abandoned blocks. The number of total forks that validators had to evaluate exceeded their capacity to do so automatically, which led to a manual intervention to fix the issue.. This was mainly to take part in a new NFT project mint.
Meanwhile, developers noted Solana has suffered intermittent congestion issues several times in the past months – with most of these resulting from bot activity targeted at NFT mints.
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