The
TON
blockchain
created
by
messaging
app
provider
Telegram
is
suffering
its
second
outage
in
as
many
days.
“Block
production
issues
began
at
19:19
UTC”
the
team
behind
the
project
told
users
in
a
message
posted
to
Telegram
and
X
(formerly
Twitter)
on
Wednesday
during
U.S.
afternoon
hours.
“The
disruption
appears
to
be
due
to
heavy
load
attributed
to
DOGS
token
minting.
TON
Core
is
working
on
a
solution.”
The
team
emphasized
that
users’
assets
were
not
at
risk.
They
followed
with
an
“urgent”
post
on
X
asking
mainnet
validators
to
update
their
nodes
and
restart.
According
to
the
Tonscan
block
explorer,
the
last
blocks
were
recorded
on
the
chain
at
12:23
Eastern
time,
or
16:23
UTC.
The
price
of
the
blockchain’s
TON
token
didn’t
really
budge
due
to
this
latest
outage,
falling
0.99%
on
a
four-hour
basis
and
down
4%
over
24
hours
at
the
time
of
writing,
according
to
CoinDesk
data.
“As
long
I
can
finally
withdraw
my
dogs
😅😅
–
I
can
wait,”
one
user
wrote
in
a
reply
to
the
team’s
Telegram
message.
The
previous
outage
occurred
during
Asia
trading
hours
Wednesday
and
lasted
about
six
hours.
It,
too,
had
little
lasting
effect
on
the
TON
price,
which
had
already
taken
a
hit
several
days
earlier
when
Pavel
Durov,
Telegram’s
founder
and
CEO,
was
arrested
in
France.
That
earlier
downtime
was
also
partially
blamed
on
the
popularity
of
the
DOGS
airdrop,
part
of
the
Ton
Foundation’s
effort
to
raise
awareness
of
what
it
believes
is
the
unjust
arrest
of
Durov.