Hive Engine update: we were down, we are back up, things to keep in mind
So, recently an account by the name of shaggroed created an account, leased RC, leased some servers from privex and decided to spam 300,000 market order transactions in the span of 35 minutes.
By doing this the amount of time to process a block went from under three seconds to over a minute each and the witnesses quickly fell behind on blocks.
His spam stopped, we caught up, and we also added transaction limits. Now an account can only do 20 transactions per block.
We're working on adding other arbitrary limits to the platform to stop malicious spam and malfunctioning bots.
So, the good news is that internal transactions are working on hive-engine.com and tribaldex.com. Market orders can be placed and executed. Diesel pool swaps are functioning.
I don't know the status of all the withdrawal and deposit routes just yet. So, I'm still looking into that.
For now the platform is generally working, but you're highly encouraged to test any transaction with a small transaction before yoloing your tokens.
While we hope to continue to have smooth operations it seems the shaggroed account has created a second account called shaggythesecond, is leasing RC, and appears like they want to go for a second round of spam. We'll see how we hold up and make additional adjustments as necessary. I sent him an onchain message encouraging him to talk to me. We'll see what happens. My guess from his name is that he thinks he's personally hurting me, but in reality he's hurting all the users of the platform. Any efforts to find him are appreciated.
Thanks for your patience. We're trying to get fully functional again in the face of a malicious bad actor. Happy trading. And do small tests before you ape. Trade responsibly. Double check the bridges in particular before doing any large transactions. Thanks trading on hive-engine and thanks for supporting this team.
Love,
Aggy
Thanks for all your hard work and dedication. Hive-Engine.com is the best thing on Hive these days. Not very many people know that they can earn more with Hive-engine than any other Hive app or feature.
People will always find a way to be a jerk lol. Glad you resolved it.
Excellent work with how the team has been handling this. 👍👏
Well done on recovering from this attack. We are likely to see more and it can be hard to predict the strategies. Building robust systems is hard.
Keep up the great work! These attacks only make us stronger in the long run :)
I guess that's how it looks like 😅
Greetings @aggroed ,
What a herculean task...to set things aright. Well done!
So appreciate hearing the details from the top.
Kind Regards,
Bleujay
Thank you for doing such thing and that culprit must be apprehended. Thank you Sir. God bless
you've made some enemies Aggy.... :)
good to know you are still around tho
there appears to be a surprisingly large number of people who hate me here. Not sure why, but it is what it is. Hope you're well.
I am my friend... feeling nostalgic at times, thinking of the good ol days, but I got to catch up with Clay a week ago, so I happen to know a bit about what's going on.
Take care brother
It's the beard..
I do NOT hate you, you been a bit over tthe top with things and a dick but personally I like your style - sales is sales and this waht certain areas on that chain would need more of @aggroed
Or probably they see the potential to go big, so they start attacking now before it goes wild :)
Thanks for your hardwork in resolving this issue. I appreciated it much.
Find him. And kill him.
Damn, looks like hive-engine got smoke.io--ed lol!! Wonder who did it?? ;)
The culprit seems to be so familiar with the chain that it poked where it hurts. I am glad the community got over it and hopefully the culprit would be caught soon. !BBH
Strangely enough, this is standard for any L2, hence the daily transaction limits. I find it strange that HIVE, with all its time in existence, still has this valve to exceed the limit and end up delaying the entire second layer.
Great job guys, we're all thankful for your hard work. was following the updates in the discord, appreciated the frequency and transparency to all that is going on, cheers!
Thank you for hard effort to make Hive Engine back again!
Hive is here to stay
Thank you so much for keeping the platform safe. Those bad guys should be caught they don't deserve to be on this platform.
@tipu curate
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Really appreciate your hard work.
Hopefully all thing's are working smoothly.
Thanks for the effort @aggroed, pls look into the HP leasing too. I just tested now and yet the expiry date isn't extending or renewing.
I did a bunch of renewing lease last night but the expiration dates are not adjusting also.
Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
But what if hive engine scales to 1mil tx a hour. could it not scale to that? That seems like a temporary fix.
The killer will come again. This time, catch him off guard.
Could he do similar attacks to the hive?
Even though it wasn't exactly the same, the Solana was attacked many times. It didn't die. It got stronger.
This is really heartbreaking news. I truly appreciate you and your entire team for handling it so well. Keep doing your best!
Kudos to you! Your effort is greatly appreciated !
Good job witnesses!
We hope this guy will be caught, we really appreciate your effort to resolve this problem, this challenge will make you more even stronger. Keep up the good works. Fighting!
Glad its caught up, I was sweating for a minute. !BBH
Thank you for all your efforts!
I hope things get back to normal as soon as possible.
It's unfortunate someone feels the need to do such things.
You have done allot for the blockchain.
Hive-Engine and Splinterlands to name some juggernaut accomplishments.
Appreciate the explanation and update. Take care.
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Good job.
Thank you for all the effort you really did a good job .
Despite the negatives and the frustration that came with this event... @shaggroed out here doing us all a favor.
They're testing limits and exploring weakness... I always compare it to the gym... if you wanna get stronger... you gotta get under some heavy ass weight.
We won't build muscle looking at the bar or just talking about it... we grow from the stress of being under it.
Attacks like these, that stress the system... are always helpful in the long run... despite the stress they cause in the present.
Great work from you and the team though Aggy - this lil minnow appreciates you!
Thanks for fixing it and keeping us updated.
!BBH
!ALIVE
Fingers crossed that spammers can be stopped.
It's quite alarming to know one can halt whole Hive 2nd layer this easy.
I think, I might have a temporary solution. You said the attacker leased RCs, so you should fund leasing RC for an account creation service. This would make RC more expensive thus making the next attacks more costly. It might be cheaper than hardware upgrade or using anti-DDoS external service.
Increasing the cost only deters those without the means. I assume someone doing this has at least some means to be able to execute the attack. As a result I'd think it would only cause issues for onboarding new users.
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