$DOGS DOGS breaks records, causing TON to crash

In September, the TON community announced that the DOGS token was held by 4.5 million unique holders, making it the meme token with the most unique holders ever.

At the time, the TON community noted that “53 million users engaged with the DOGS Mini App, and 42.2 million were eligible for the token airdrop,” making it the largest meme token generation event in history at the time.

The meteoric popularity of the DOGS Telegram Mini App and users flocking to mint DOGS tokens caused TON to cease block production twice.

On Aug. 28, 2024, TON experienced the first DOGS-related outage and ceased producing blocks for several hours due to unusually high network congestion from onchain users claiming DOGS tokens during the airdrop.

The second outage occurred one day later, on Aug. 29, and lasted approximately six hours before block production resumed.

TON experienced a total of 12 hours of downtime within a 36-hour period due to the high volume of users claiming the memecoin.