Solana Foundation says bots spammed the Grape Protocol IDO
The Solana foundation released all about the incident that took place on the Solana Network recently.
As we know, in the last week the Solana network stopped executing transactions and it took around 17 hours to resume their operations smoothly. Today the Solana foundation explained that it was not a coincidence.
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On 21 September, Solana foundation released blog post for all about the incident and explained how someone tricked the platform with the use of a bot.
According to Solana foundation, bot started to spam when, on 12:00 UTC Tuesday, Grape launched its IDO on the DEX Raydium.
The activity of the bot was to explode the transactions. Team noted that transactions increased rapidly in the network and finally that increased to around 400,000 per second and that ended up into automatic multiple purposed forks of the network.
After all this event, Validators of Solana failed to run the nodes because of crashes after running out of memory. And that took around 17 hours ( 14-15 September).
In the recovery, Solana engineers expert team and 1000 validators of Solana network supported at that time to facilitate a fork with 80% majority support.
“This was a coordinated effort by the community, not only in creating a patch, but in getting 80% of the network to come to consensus.”
Solana foundation also said that soon they will release a more detailed and informed blog about this incident.
“technical post-mortem and root cause analysis report in next coming weeks”
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