TON Blockchain Back Online After Brief Outage - Unchained

The TON blockchain, closely tied to cloud-based messaging app Telegram, suffered a brief outage on Sunday that halted block production

The issue was traced to an error in the masterchain dispatch queue affecting how the main chain processed its data queue.

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TON’s development team announced the problem at 9:21 a.m. ET on Sunday and restored network functionality about 40 minutes later. Only a few masterchain validators required updates to resume block production, and no funds were lost during the incident.

It’s not the first time TON has seen outages. In August last year, several similar incidents occurred due to high demand for the DOGS memecoin, causing network congestion and halts in block production.