The Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain is back online after experiencing issues that caused its network to stop producing new blocks for several hours.
“TON is now producing blocks normally! We are back online,” the TON Foundation reported on its X page on Aug. 28 at 05.30 am UTC.
According to data from the TON transaction scanner Dton.io, the TON blockchain is back to producing new blocks, with the network counting 231,879,089 blocks at the time of writing.
The latest update from TON came two hours after the TON foundation officially reported experiencing a disruption in block production due to the abnormal load on the network. The outages were allegedly caused by unusual network congestion caused by the airdrop of Dogs, a a new TON-based memecoin designed to embody the spirit and culture of the Telegram community.
“Several validators are unable to clean the database of old transactions, which has led to losing the consensus,” TON noted.
The Foundation mentioned that the TON Core issued a call to validators to restart at 4:00 am UTC in a move to reestablish the consensus.
“Rest assured your transactions will be made, and no cryptocurrency assets will be lost due to the issue,” the TON Foundation added.
Source: TON
This is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.
