Users of decentralized applications on the Polygon blockchain (MATIC) are ready to sign a petition to prevent sunflower growers from eating up all its resources
Bloomberg Crypto observers noticed that players of Sunflower Farmers have clogged up the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain network. Here’s how the euphoria around one game can paralyze one of the top smart contracts platforms.
Sunflower growers have broken the polygon: Bloomberg
According to Bloomberg’s Olga Kharif article, a spike in in-game activity on Sunflower Farmers’ Play Protocol to Win on Polygon (MATIC) sent median gas charges to sky-high levels.
As per data displayed by mainstream Polygon explorers, in the first days of 2022, gas fees on Polygon (MATIC) rallied to new historic highs.
From January 1 to 3, Polygon gas prices increased by 600%. The most obvious catalyst for the first massive Polygon Network Collapse (MATIC) is the activity of the Sunflower Farmers game.
Currently, its users are sending more than two million transactions on Polygon every 24 hours. The game became the #1 gas consumer on Polygon Network, leaving USD Coin and Wrapped MATIC token contracts in the dust.
Migration to Terra, Solana in the boxes?
As the game now uses over 70% of Polygon’s resources, some dApp users on the same network have even offered to start a petition to prevent Sunflower Farms from accessing Polygon.
As such, Polygon collapses the same way Ethereum did in 2020-2021. As covered by U.Today previously, Ethereum (ETH) was clogged by Ponzi schemes MMM Crypto and Forsage.
While some analysts claim this is nothing but growing pain from Polygon, developers may start to consider moving their apps to other EVM-enabled blockchains.
