(0/11) 🧵 about what happened during weekend and solutions used by @solana team and validators for dealing with these issues 👇
(1/11) Crypto market started crashing (including $SOL) on Thursday afternoon (UTC time), almost at the same time Solana throughput went down significantly marking the start of this slowdown.
Dec 11, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
(1/6) What’s happening on @Solana these days. It’s not an DDoS network attack as many said. The network hasn’t lost consensus/neither halted, just slowed down to 1000 TPS on 4 occasions since Dec 9 (Thursday).
(2/6) It looks like Raydium bots were trying to pack large TXs into blocks, which consumed at lot of compute power, which is measured in BPF (Berkley Packet Filter) compute unit (Solana doesn’t count that into packing block logic)