Sunflower farmers, the new P2E game strikes a serious blow to the Polygon blockchain. A vulnerability in a smart contract allowed not only players, but also bots, to mine endless iron picks. This vulnerability led to the fact that the gas price on the Polygon blockchain increased from the base level from 30 gwei to 500 gwei per transaction. In more understandable numbers, the growth occurred from about $ 0,00009 to about $ 0,001. This is all exactly cheaper compared to Ethereum's gas fees. Be that as it may, the rise in gas prices is in any case terrifying, because Polygon was designed as a cheap alternative to the Ethereum blockchain. The response from the developers was not long in coming, and already on January 7, the team Sunflower farmers decided to transfer the game to technical work, to improve and restart the SFF token.
Sunflower Farmers vulnerability
At the expense of the vulnerability: A vulnerability in the code was used in the crafting system, allowing players to endlessly mine iron picks. When the community began to raise this issue en masse, it became known to the developers, and the game was immediately closed. At this point, a snapshot was taken to save game resources and NFTs. Data is stored in block # 23451693 and will be used to buy out all NFTs and resources after the vulnerability in the game is eliminated. Interestingly, players will still need to own these tokens and NFTs if they want to redeem them once the game restarts.
While the game is in wait mode! It is impossible to remove a smart contract from blockchain or decentralized exchanges. The developers have taken all the necessary steps to blacklist the token. But this does not negate the fact that bots inevitably continue to play the decentralized game, interacting directly through the blockchain, and people continue to speculate with the SFF token, because the Sunflower Farmers developers cannot prohibit anyone from trading the token. It became known that anyone who receives tokens is doing so solely for speculation with the old SFF and will not be guaranteed any of the new tokens.
Causes of problems
There are several reasons why the farm game has led to problems with gas prices on the Polygon blockchain. The first one is that smart contracts in the game are configured to reward players with SFF tokens for each game action. This way, players can earn tokens by completing tasks such as planting and harvesting. This generates a large number of transactions. The earned tokens can be used to buy in-game NFTs and pay for various buildings or crafting to expand your opportunities for further earnings in the game.
The second reason is that the game mechanics forces players to compete aggressively with each other in order to get as many tokens as possible. The game's tokenomics are designed so that early adopters will receive a much larger share of the rewards as the supply of tokens quickly becomes deflationary, creating scarcity. Ultimately, players tend to acquire a large share of in-game tokens and pay high gas fees to ensure that their transactions are successful.
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