The Open Network (TON) blockchain, powered by popular messaging app Telegram, has experienced severe congestion and services have been temporarily suspended.
Ton blockchain launched earlier in the week due to a protocol inspired by Bitcoin Ordinals. processing times excessive delays lived. According to the statements made by TON developers and Telegram users, the problem started on Tuesday.
Yesterday, according to the data platform showing the status of the TON blockchain from 2.5 million More transactions were pending. The data also shows that a single transaction is running much slower than usual. longer than 1 second It was stated that it continued.
With the said congestion in the network, TON’s biggest wallet bots Temporarily disable Wallet and Tonkeeper services stopped.
Similar to Bitcoin Ordinals
TON blockchain’s Bitcoin ordinals (inscriptions) were released inspired by BRC20 TON20 Ordinals, became the main actor of the congestion. It was stated that TON20 suddenly increased network usage by 61 times, and the network did not stop, but came to a halt.
According to CoinGecko data, Toncoin (TON) price was not affected by the current congestion and at the time of writing from $2.29 is being traded.