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Outage · May 1, 2022
NFT bot outage
NFT mint bots knock the network offline for about seven hours.
SOL close on May 1, 2022
$89.65
Source: Coinbase Exchange SOL/USD daily close, 2022-05-01
$89.65
Source: Coinbase Exchange SOL/USD daily close, 2022-05-01
On April 30 into May 1, 2022, bots sent millions of transactions per second to win an NFT mint using the Candy Machine program. Validators ran out of memory, consensus stalled and the network was down for about seven hours.
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