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The Open Network (TON) announced that its blockchain is back online after experiencing a disruption in block production for almost three hours, caused by an abnormal load of more than 20 million transactions in just two days. 

The disruption in block production led to several validators being unable to clean the database of old transactions, which resulted in a loss of consensus. TON claimed that TON Core had issued a call to validators to restart at 4 a.m. UTC on Aug. 28. 

To be specific, the recent high activity made it difficult for the validators to manage the garbage collection process, causing it to overload. The high volume of transactions did not allow validators enough time to maintain consensus with each other.

TON mentioned that if the validators restart at the aforementioned time, “the consensus will be reestablished.” After restarting, TON announced at 5:30 a.m. UTC that the blockchain was “producing blocks normally.” 

An X account Tonk Inu claimed that the network experiencing an overload is likely caused by the DOGS, a new TON-based memecoin, as several crypto exchanges like Binance, OKX, and Bybit listed it on its platform on Aug. 26. 

Justin, the strategic advisor of TON society, also suggested that the overload may have been caused by TON’s meme coin, claiming, “Who let the $DOGS out?”

TON has been the highlight in the community after Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, was arrested by French authorities on Aug. 24. Following the arrest, Toncoin (TON) dropped below the $6 mark on Aug. 25.

Although TON records an 18.26% fall in seven days, the Open Network’s native token is currently trading at $5.50 after experiencing a surge of 1.69% in one day, according to the data from CoinMarketCap.  

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