Transaction spamming, or Tx spamming, is one of the persistent security attacks on these high performance blockchains that can wreak havoc for extended periods of time. The attackers might or might not gain any financial benefit, but can certainly make everybody’s life quite miserable at relatively low cost.

In this article, we define what is transaction spamming, how to detect it, and how to deal with it. Recent examples from 4 leading projects were studied, as well as a best practice is summarized.

Supporting talented developers, designers and technical writers to the future of Web 3.0 and open source development, NKN is proud to announce our sponsorship to Gitcoin’s Grants Round 11 (GR11) Hackathon from September 8th to september 29th, 2021. And hint: you don’t need blockchain or solidity/WebAssembly experience to participate in our bounties. Designers, technical writers and tinkerers can also find their bounties of interest, so please keep reading.

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Summary: During month-long CryptoBazar Hackathon in September, NKN attracted 157 developers who produced several high quality applications based on the NKN SDK. The top prize winner SpaceCats by Nikolay Perevozchikov’s team is a 3D multiplayer game with amazing audio and video effects, and real-time playability. We would also like to congratulate 2nd place Danil Lykov […]