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That a rather niche project like Grape could break the blockchain with the highest-claimed transaction capacity of any major project raised serious questions for Solana’s tech stack. Project leads plan to issue a full post-mortem in the coming weeks, but early assessments from the Solana Foundation point to the $GRAPE IDO, or initial decentralized exchange (DEX) offering, as the likely culprit.