TON blockchain experienced over six-hour outage, halting block production and prompting Binance and Bybit to suspend transactions.

The Open Network (TON) blockchain suffered a major disruption when it stopped producing new blocks for more than six hours, halting transaction processing across the network. According to Tonscan and multiple reports, block production ceased at around 22:11 UTC on August 27, with no new blocks or confirmed transactions until the network was manually restarted by validators following guidance from the TON team. During the outage, major exchanges including Binance and Bybit temporarily suspended TON deposits and withdrawals as a precaution, citing the inability of the network to process transactions reliably. TON Foundation contributors attributed the incident to an abnormal surge in activity tied to the launch and airdrop of the DOGS meme coin, which created a sudden spike in transaction volume. The excessive load caused many validators to struggle with database “garbage collection” (clearing old transactions), leading them to fall out of sync and ultimately lose consensus, which stopped block production. To restore operations, the TON team instructed validators to restart their nodes with specific parameters at around 04:00 UTC on August 28, after which block production resumed and the chain returned to normal operation. The outage has raised questions about TON’s capacity and resilience under extreme load, especially given its positioning as a high-throughput layer-1 closely associated with the Telegram ecosystem, and follows previous TON disruptions linked to heavy DOGS-related activity.

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