

Because of the fork’s timing, BSC is not ordering same-price transactions chronologically, but randomly, in the mempool where transactions are picked to be integrated in the blockchain. “Ethereum experienced similar problems during the DeFi Summer, which prompted the core devs to introduce time-based transaction ordering,” he said.Ĭore developers merged the feature into Ethereum’s protocol in July, before BSC was released, but BSC forked Geth prior to the pull request according to Anisimov.
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BSC is suffering from arbitrage bots spamming the network with transactions, Andrei Anisimov, previously a Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase, said in an interview. “Block explorers were out, nodes were not synced and average transaction times went from 5-15 sec to 10-15 minutes” reported The Defiant engineer, who goes by the online alias Sam Farmer.īSC is a fork of Geth, itself an implementation of Ethereum, written in the Go programming language. In the meantime, the user experience floundered. PancakeSwap also encouraged its users to “use more gas,” on Twitter. The increased demand led to BSC’s leading block explorer BscScan, to suggest that users increase their gas submissions to above 5 gwei, which has been the standard for the chain’s users. The increased demand for BSC block space appears to be the culprit with daily transactions hitting an all-time high of 8.1M on Tuesday, and then again yesterday at 9.1M. “We also have an ATH number of people using the site.” “No, #PancakeSwap isn’t slow, BSC is just overloaded right now,” the tweet said.

PancakeSwap, the leading Binance Smart Chain application in terms of market capitalization, blamed recent performance woes on an overloaded blockchain.
