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Pockets supplier Phantom companies skilled almost three hours of downtime on Oct. 28 amid customers’ rush to assert GRASS tokens. Customers on X reported lacking balances and an lack of ability to carry out transactions.
In line with Phantom Standing, a significant incident with the pockets’s again finish made the service unresponsive at 1:36 P.M. UTC and went again dwell at 4:20 P.M. UTC. That is the second time Phantom companies have gone down this month, with an 8-minute shutdown reported on Oct. 3.
After resolving the problem, Phantom shared on X that its crew would “proceed to actively monitor the state of affairs,” including that crucial steps could be taken to forestall comparable points.
Furthermore, Phantom reported 12 main backend incidents in 2024, 7 of which occurred on Feb. 1, totaling almost one and a half hours of downtime. Two days later, on Feb. 3, the pockets supplier reported delays with token balances.
As of April this yr, Phantom reported 7 million customers, shortly making the scarcity noticeable to Solana customers.
In the meantime, the Solana community’s methods remained totally operational when Phantom went down, as Solana Standing information reveals complete uptime for the previous 90 days.
Downtime amid airdrop
Notably, Phantom’s points began six minutes after the declare of GRASS tokens went dwell, prompting observers to tie each occasions as customers went to gather their rewards for interacting with the protocol.
The tokens are native to the Solana-based decentralized bodily infrastructure (DePIN) community Grass and are utilized to reward customers that lend unused web bandwidth. The community capability is then used to coach and fine-tune synthetic intelligence fashions.
The official Grass documentation reveals that 100 million GRASS tokens, representing 10% of the availability, can be distributed on this first airdrop.
GRASS’s worth has fluctuated right now. One hour after its launch, it fell 28% to achieve $0.65 and has recovered 9% since then. In line with information from CoinGecko, the token is priced at $0.71 on the time of writing.