Pockets provider Phantom firms expert virtually three hours of downtime on Oct. 28 amid prospects’ rush to say GRASS tokens. Prospects on X reported missing balances and an incapacity to hold out transactions.
In accordance with Phantom Standing, a major incident with the pockets’s once more end made the service unresponsive at 1:36 P.M. UTC and went once more reside at 4:20 P.M. UTC. That’s the second time Phantom firms have gone down this month, with an 8-minute shutdown reported on Oct. 3.
After resolving the issue, Phantom shared on X that its workers would “proceed to actively monitor the state of affairs,” together with that essential steps could possibly be taken to forestall comparable factors.
Moreover, Phantom reported 12 important backend incidents in 2024, 7 of which occurred on Feb. 1, totaling virtually one and a half hours of downtime. Two days later, on Feb. 3, the pockets provider reported delays with token balances.
As of April this 12 months, Phantom reported 7 million prospects, quickly making the shortage noticeable to Solana prospects.
Within the meantime, the Solana neighborhood’s packages remained completely operational when Phantom went down, as Solana Standing info reveals entire uptime for the earlier 90 days.
Downtime amid airdrop
Notably, Phantom’s factors started six minutes after the declare of GRASS tokens went reside, prompting observers to tie every events as prospects went to assemble their rewards for interacting with the protocol.
The tokens are native to the Solana-based decentralized bodily infrastructure (DePIN) neighborhood Grass and are utilized to reward prospects that lend unused net bandwidth. The neighborhood functionality is then used to educate and fine-tune artificial intelligence fashions.
The official Grass documentation reveals that 100 million GRASS tokens, representing 10% of the supply, might be distributed on this primary airdrop.
GRASS’s worth has fluctuated in the intervening time. One hour after its launch, it fell 28% to achieve $0.65 and has recovered 9% since then. In accordance with info from CoinGecko, the token is priced at $0.71 on the time of writing.
