At the moment, a number of services, such as explorers and Tonkeeper, may experience unstable operation due to excessive traffic on liteservers.
Yesterday, the TON Console channel reported a short-term maintenance interruption due to technical issues with the TON API.
This was caused by a DDoS attack from 3400 IP addresses from multiple data centers.
Last evening, the Tonkeeper news channel also reported attacks on liteservers, TON Center, GetBlock and Tonhub.
A flood-attack is a low-level attempt to clog bandwidth and drain the resources of indexing services (TON API) through fictitious requests.
This started to happen over the hype around GRAM mining, as can be seen from the following trends in transaction growth:
January 30 | 1.2 million tx
January 31 | 3.2 million tx | +166%
February 1 | 4.9 million tx | +53%
February 2 | 2.7 million tx | -44%
February 3 | 3.1 million tx | +14%
February 4 | 4.6 million tx | +48%
February 5 | 5.2 million tx | +13%
From January 30 to February 5, the number of transactions on the network increased by 333%, and the throughput reached up to 60 transactions per second, according to data from TON Stat and TON Center.
We hope our devs will fix all the problems as soon as possible and get back to stable operation.
Your anti-gaslighter @TonPost