In a recent blog post, the project's main developer, Chitoshi Kusama, discussed the situation. Kusama stated that the issues were not ingrained in Shibarium itself. Instead it resulted from the massive influx of users and transactions that coincided with the launch of the platform.

Kosama wrote our team was working to scale up the series and bring it back to the point where we can handle the decentralized network flow.

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