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Solana has been taking market share out of Ethereum across several sectors. The platform has seen the expansion of its NFT based projects with SolChicks, one of its latest on-chain games with a play-to-earn (P2E) model, causing a lot of hype amongst the users.<\/p>\n

Related Reading | Grayscale Launches Solana Trust Following Investors \u2018Appetite\u2019<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

The game was built with SolChick, one of Solana\u2019s NFT Collections, and let players take their assets and using as their main characters. Launched with a Player-to-Player (PvP), a Gameplay with raids characteristics, SolChicks has set out to \u201crevolutionize the industry\u201d.<\/p>\n

The hype around this Solana project translated into a slowdown in the network\u2019s activity as too many users tried to access the platform via Raydium and Solana, the blockchain backing the launch, and crashed it. The team behind the project posted<\/a> the following via their Twitter account after its problematic token generation event (TGE):<\/p>\n

We apologize for the inconvenience of this delay, but tens of thousands of people are trying to buy $CHICKS and the Raydium server has crashed. It appears SolScan is also not loading our contract address right now either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The team behind the project tried to fix the issue while, according to the official post, working on deploying a liquidity pool that will support the game and its GameFi model. As revealed pre-launch, users need to claim their SolChicks.<\/p>\n

The increasing demand for SolChicks and the platform\u2019s native token CHICKS, caused Solana to congest. Thus, slowing down transactions in the network and the users\u2019 capacity to claim and transact with these digital assets.<\/p>\n

The team behind SolChicks called the event a \u201crecord breaking launch\u201d and transferred the responsibility on the event to Solana:<\/p>\n

The token claiming dashboard has crashed, as the Solana network is extremely congested. We\u2019ve had tens of thousands simultaneous claims and buys and there simply isn\u2019t enough capacity in the network. This is something that is completely out of our hands, and rests solely with the Solana network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Solution For A Problematic Event On Solana<\/h2>\n

In the coming day, the team behind SolChicks prepares to airdrop their tokens for the users that meet the requirements. In order to achieve this objective and contribute with reducing congestion levels on the Solana network, the team is currently creating a plan.<\/p>\n

In addition, the team warned users about potential fake and scam accounts and addresses looking to use the project\u2019s popularity for personal gains. Finally, they added the following as a special message to the community:<\/p>\n

Once again, we sincerely apologise for the hiccups on launch day. No one likes or wants these holdups; however you can rest assured that our entire team is working around the clock to actively rectify these issues, including liaising with Solana and Raydium directly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Related Reading | <\/strong>Solana Tops Cardano, Ethereum To Become The Most Staked Cryptocurrency<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As of press time, Solana (SOL) trades at $151 with a 13.1% correction in the past day.<\/p>\n

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SOL trends to the downside in the 4-hour chart. Source: SOLUSDT Tradingview<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Solana has been taking market share out of Ethereum across several sectors. The platform has seen the expansion of its NFT based projects with SolChicks, one of its latest on-chain games with a play-to-earn (P2E) model, causing a lot of hype amongst the users. Related Reading | Grayscale Launches Solana Trust Following Investors \u2018Appetite\u2019 The game was built with SolChick, one of Solana\u2019s NFT Collections, and let players take their assets and using as their main characters. Launched with a Player-to-Player (PvP), a Gameplay with raids characteristics, SolChicks has set out to \u201crevolutionize the industry\u201d. The hype around this Solana project translated into a slowdown in the network\u2019s activity as too many users tried to access the platform via Raydium and Solana, the blockchain backing the launch, and crashed it. The team behind the project posted the following via their Twitter account after its problematic token generation event (TGE): We apologize for the inconvenience of this delay, but tens of thousands of people are trying to buy $CHICKS and the Raydium server has crashed. It appears SolScan is also not loading our contract address right now either. The team behind the project tried to fix the issue while, according to the official post, working on deploying a liquidity pool that will support the game and its GameFi model. As revealed pre-launch, users need to claim their SolChicks. The increasing demand for SolChicks and the platform\u2019s native token CHICKS, caused Solana to congest. Thus, slowing down transactions in the network and the users\u2019 capacity to claim and transact with these digital assets. The team behind SolChicks called the event a \u201crecord breaking launch\u201d and transferred the responsibility on the event to Solana: The token claiming dashboard has crashed, as the Solana network is extremely congested. We\u2019ve had tens of thousands simultaneous claims and buys and there simply isn\u2019t enough capacity in the network. This is something that is completely out of our hands, and rests solely with the Solana network. A Solution For A Problematic Event On Solana In the coming day, the team behind SolChicks prepares to airdrop their tokens for the users that meet the requirements. In order to achieve this objective and contribute with reducing congestion levels on the Solana network, the team is currently creating a plan. In addition, the team warned users about potential fake and scam accounts and addresses looking to use the project\u2019s popularity for personal gains. Finally, they added the following as a special message to the community: Once again, we sincerely apologise for the hiccups on launch day. No one likes or wants these holdups; however you can rest assured that our entire team is working around the clock to actively rectify these issues, including liaising with Solana and Raydium directly. Related Reading | Solana Tops Cardano, Ethereum To Become The Most Staked Cryptocurrency As of press time, Solana (SOL) trades at $151 with a 13.1% correction in the past day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":470552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solana"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow Solana Was Brought Down By This dApp Launch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Solana has been taking market share from Ethereum. 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Born in 1992 in Venezuela, Reynaldo is familiar with how governments and central banks can negatively affect people, their everyday lives, and their futures by creating inflation and erasing their hopes for a better future. Thus, like many Venezuelans, he embraced this new technology to help him and his family navigate difficult times. In another life, Reynaldo would have pursued a career as an investigator, most likely tracking down the origins of the Cyberpunk movement with the publication of William Gibson\u2019s \u2018Neuromancer.\u2019 The intersection between fiction and reality, with the materialization of Bitcoin in 2009, would have allowed him to dive deep into the crypto sphere as something more than a financial phenomenon but also a cultural shift in society that was brewing since the XX century, and maybe even sooner, in the XIX century with the publication of Henry David Thoreau\u2019s \u2018Civil Disobedience.\u2019 But that\u2019s for another life. In this one, Reynaldo has been trading to improve his trading skills. Since 2023, he has been trying to learn Python to create successful strategies and find ways to execute them. It is a difficult task, which continues to keep him busy today and will most likely continue to keep him busy in the near and long term. In his free time, he enjoys lifting heavy objects, reading, watching movies, and listening to his favorite music. Some of his favorite authors are Walt Whitman, William Faulkner, Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Mario Vargas Llosa, Reinaldo Arenas, Rafael Cadenas, and many others. Lately, he has been primarily interested in reading about dystopic societies, a topic that deeply resonates with the crypto industry. Since 2023, he has lived in Spain with his wife. He loves the weather, the food, and the people and their culture. They both expect to travel much more within the country they now call home and beyond its border. 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