# TON Resumes Block Production After Nearly Six Hour Outage

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/08/28/ton-blockchain-grinds-to-a-standstill-with-no-blocks-produced-for-over-3-hours
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/TON-Resumes-Block-Production-After-Nearly-Six-Hour-Outage?index=0x66cec604d9f2755f53960493001a1e8d0275914afd5421fdc4bac0784cac87ea1ddb902a
Submitted by tim on 2024-08-28 UTC, 6 upvotes, 3 comments

## Summary

The TON blockchain resumed block production in the early afternoon Hong Kong time on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, after a nearly six-hour outage. The article links the halt to a surge in network traffic, which it suggests may have been driven by an airdrop of the DOGS memecoin, though it notes that observers said TON's transactions per second came in well below expectations. The team said several validators were unable to clean the database of old transactions, which led to losing consensus. Bybit temporarily suspended withdrawals and deposits citing network instability.

## Comments

**tim**: It‘s really funny how everyone FUDs Ethereum, when shit like this happens on other chains and their false claims like „55000“ TPS are revealed

**macbudkowski.eth**: There should be a fine print saying it's 55,000 TPS on average - when it works, it's 110,000; when it doesn't, it's 0 ;)

**tim**: Why btw is the thumbnail of this article a dog?


ah bc the network went down bc of DOGS