MadLad’s NFT Public Mint delayed after triggering a DDoS attack
Quick take:
- The MadLads NFT coin has been delayed by 24 hours from the previous schedule.
- It has now been changed to start at 19:00 ET (23:00 UTC) on Friday.
- The project’s co-creator Armani Ferrante said on Twitter spaces late Thursday that it was due to high demand.
MadLad’s NFT public coin has been delayed by 24 hours, co-creators Armani Ferrante and Tristan Yver announced Thursday. The delay was caused by unexpectedly high levels of internet traffic, which triggered a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
The team said during the Twitter spaces call that the 24-hour period will allow it to solve the problem caused by increased demand.
The public coin has now been moved to start at 19:00 ET (23:00 UTC) on Friday, according to a tweet posted by an account associated with the backpack-based NFT collection.
The project can only be minted using Backpack, a Solana-based asset and protocol-agnostic crypto wallet created by Blue Coral, a web3 startup founded by Ferrante and Yver. However, amid high demand for MadLad’s NFT, billions of requests were routed through the wallet, exceeding the platform’s limits.
“This is orders of magnitude more insane than anything we’ve dealt with up to this point,” Ferrante told more than 9,500 listeners in a Twitter Spaces conversation.
MadLads is a first-of-its-kind NFT, called xNFT, with X described as an executable tokenized code that represents ownership rights over the NFT.
MadLads first reported the massive DDoS attack last night, when the duo delayed the coin by an hour.
However, the team was unable to resolve the issue immediately, leading to the 24-hour delay. No update has been made to indicate any further delays, meaning as of this writing, all systems are Go.
The Sonala community has been divided for most of the past 5 months after the company revealed huge losses amid exposure to the collapsed crypto exchange platform FTX.
The platform saw some projects like y00ts and DeGods decamp to different blockchains later last year.
Ferrante and Yver’s technology stack on the platform that includes Anchor Network and Backpack has emerged as the most likely unifier for the community, with MadLad’s NFT already pointing to an excited community on the platform.
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