Left (LEFT) Block production on the SOL network was interrupted for 7 hours, with huge amounts of data flowing into the SOL network and the validators being out of consensus.
Bot Accounts Flock to Candy Machine Platform on Solana Network
According to the Solana Foundation’s statement, bot accounts are a popular NFT It attacked Candy Machine, the minting tool, and generated unprecedented traffic.
A record was broken, with 4 million transaction requests per second and 100 gigabytes of data flow observed on the SOL network.
For unknown reasons, this attack of bot accounts resulted in network validators being out of consensus.
With block production becoming impossible, the Solana network was interrupted. After that, the organized SOL validators performed a reboot on slot 131973970.
SOL Founder’s Absence During Attack Reacts
SOL co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, who said he was traveling at the time of the event, thanked the validator community for their role in bringing the mainnet back. Yakovenko was criticized by Twitter users for not being on duty during these events.
Unlike the 17-hour outage in September, during this latest outage, the validators simply rebooted the network 7 hours before instead of continuing with a new and improved code.
In preparation for the network reboot, validators considered whether to impose a temporary block on Candy Machine operations. Some verifiers expressed that this would amount to a form of censorship.
Precautions Taken to Prevent Candy Machine Platform From Being Attacked Again
However, other parts of the SOL ecosystem soon rushed to help. Metaplex, one of the key officers of the SOL NFT infrastructure and affiliated with Candy Machine, said in his tweet that they will impose a ‘bot penalty’ of 0.01 SOL on the platform to prevent excessive traffic.
today #fading mainnet-beta went down partially due to botting on the Metaplex Candy Machine program. To combat this, we have merged and will soon deploy a botting penalty to the program as part of a broader effort to stabilize the network. https://t.co/QaAZT3VxXz
— Metaplex (@metaplex) May 1, 2022
In addition, services such as the Phantom wallet and the decentralized exchange Mango Markets in the SOL ecosystem also struggled to recover after the reactivation of RPC nodes.
With the cut, there was a sudden decrease in the price of Solana. SOL token fell to $ 81.91 during the day. At the time of this writing, SOL is recovering and trading at $88.96.
*Not investment advice.