{"id":8576,"date":"2025-01-20T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=8576"},"modified":"2025-01-20T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:03:16","slug":"solana-blockchain-faces-network-congestion-as-trump-and-melania-meme-tokens-surge-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=8576","title":{"rendered":"Solana Blockchain Faces Network Congestion As Trump And Melania Meme Tokens Surge: What You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The <strong>Solana<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>) blockchain experienced significant network congestion on Monday as enthusiasm around President-elect <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>-themed meme tokens triggered unprecedented transaction volumes, leading to technical difficulties for key infrastructure provider <strong>Jito Labs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Jito Labs reported \u201csevere degradation\u201d of its Block Engine API due to \u201cunprecedented load levels,\u201d though the company later confirmed service stability had improved following emergency mitigation efforts. While the Solana network continued processing blocks, transaction submission through Jito\u2019s service was temporarily impacted.<\/p>\n<p>Solana\u2019s official X account retweeted a post from Jito Labs.<\/p>\n<p>The congestion coincided with the launch of the MELANIA token on Solana by <strong>Melania Trump<\/strong>, which surged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/43078040\/trump-coin-tanks-36-even-as-melania-trump-launches-her-own-token-top-analyst-says-his-short-is-going-very-very-well\">over 21,000% within 24 hours<\/a> to reach an $11.39 billion market capitalization. This followed the recent launch of the OFFICIAL TRUMP token, which experienced a 36% price drop &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/43079254\/solana-blockchain-faces-network-congestion-as-trump-and-melania-meme-tokens-surge-what-you\" alt=\"Solana\" blockchain faces network congestion as trump and melania meme tokens surge: what you need to know>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) blockchain experienced significant network congestion on Monday as enthusiasm around President-elect Donald Trump-themed meme tokens triggered unprecedented transaction volumes, leading to technical difficulties for key infrastructure provider Jito Labs. What Happened: Jito Labs reported \u201csevere degradation\u201d of its Block Engine API due to \u201cunprecedented load levels,\u201d though the company later confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-8576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}