According to Foresight News, Justin, a member of the TON Foundation, responded to the TON network outage, saying that the cause may be the network overload caused by the release of DOGS, and garbage collection overloaded many validators for so long that they lost consensus. In order to restore consensus, the verification nodes will be required to restart around 12:00 Beijing time.

Foresight News previously reported that according to Tonscan data, the last block time of the TON network was 06:11:46 Beijing time, and it has been down for 5 hours.