Every major NFT drop follows the same pattern: hype builds, mint day arrives, website crashes or slows to a crawl, people complain on Twitter, floor price dumps because of bad launch experience.
You'd think after seeing this happen dozens of times projects would figure out how to handle burst traffic but it keeps happening. The problem isn't even that complicated, NFT mints create predictable traffic spikes at specific times, you know exactly when load will hit.
Some projects blame it on "too much demand" but that's kind of BS, successful web2 services handle way more traffic than NFT drops. Fortnite launches new seasons with millions of concurrent users and doesn't fall apart.
The issue seems to be most NFT projects use shared infrastructure where they're competing with thousands of other apps for block space during their mint. So even if their contracts and website work fine, blockchain confirmations slow down when mainnet gets congested.
Bigger projects sometimes rent extra infrastructure for launch day but that's expensive and still doesn't fully solve it. Plus most NFT projects don't have budgets for enterprise infrastructure solutions.
Has anyone actually solved this or is it just accepted that NFT launches will be chaotic and some people will get screwed by gas wars and slow confirmations?
