Canto Blockchain Suffers Two-Day Outage Amid Consensus Issue

August 12, 2024 Leave a Comment

Layer-1 blockchain Canto has been offline since Saturday following a “consensus issue.” The CANTO token initially dropped by 21% before recovering over the course of the weekend.

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