The non-fungible token (NFT) season is still in full swing, along with the growth of the metaverse.
If the Ethereum network is often slapped with expensive gas prices, this time Polygon has had to accept the same criticism.
It is understood the cost of gas on the Polygon network increased sharply after the launch of the latest NFT game, Sunflower Farmers.
DappRadar’s record revealed a total of 434,000 active users over the past week, up 3,704% over the previous record. In fact, that number surpasses the record of active users on the decentralized exchange (DEX), QuickSwap which only recorded 241,000 users.
Polygon was developed on a more advanced scale than Ethereum and wanted to solve the problem of transaction validation, but due to this game the price of gas has risen to almost 764 Gwei on 5 January.
While the cost of gas in this network on average was only 72-115 Gwei at the end of December.
Worse, a dumping of complaints began to fill the space of social media platforms: Reddit and Discord Polygon due to incidents of transaction failure.
Horizon Games game developer Philippe Castonguay revealed as many as 11% of verifiers on the network failed to complete blocks due to excessive demand.
For information, Sunflower Farmers is an open source game with a play-to-earn (P2E) concept that offers rewards in crypto to its players.
