The EOS network recorded a “pending transaction” of $ 3 trillion.

The popular Twitter account Whale Alert, pereeda data about especially large movements of assets in public blockchains cryptocurrency, shook the public this morning, saying that a transaction worth $ 3.66 trillion was recorded on the EOS network.

Later, the account owners explained that the alarm was false: “The EOS user under the name“ fuckhacker.x ”figured out how to create a large fake transaction, but EOS seems to be able to detect it. Unfortunately, the transaction was transferred to the network before it was removed. We added an additional check to prevent similar incidents in the future. ”

To cheat the Whale Alert algorithm, the prankster smog with the help of the so-called “pending transaction”. As the name suggests, it serves as a promise to make a transfer in the future, but does not impose any obligations on the sender.

“There is no guarantee that the delayed action will be carried out,” wrote the manufacturer of EOS New York blocks on Twitter. - It was a pending transaction. A transaction created to send a deferred transaction can only indicate whether the request was transmitted successfully or not. After being transferred to the network, the transaction is subject to standard validation checks. "

In November last year, a similar fake transaction in the Stellar blockchain attracted everyone's attention when an unknown sender tried to send 99,999,999,999 XLM, which was 5 times the total number of XLM in circulation.