I’m getting pretty frustrated with topping up already deployed canisters on the ICP blockchain tbh… ICP decides to just “eat” the ICP transferred over by using a command like: dfx ledger --network ic top-up aiekw-byaaa-aaaal-abhwa-cai --amount 2 Transfer sent at block height 4736200 Canister was t…

Cool! Thanks for checking. We are missing 0.7T = 7.9T - 7.2T cycles. There is a fee of 0.1T for creating a single canister, which explains 0.3T. After taking that into account we are missing 0.4T. I guess some of it was burned by execution and periodic charges for memory usage. Shall we consider the…

Thanks for the report. I’ll reach out to the owners of the top-up code. I see that your canister has an availableCycles() query. It currently returns 6.1T It seems that some of the cycles were deposited after you saw 4.3T. But that still doesn’t explain why the balance is not 11-12T now. Could it …

I’ve had a similar experience with creating canisters. [image] Failed creating canister and lost ICP Getting Started This seems to happen consistently and I imagine it’s very off-putting for people wanting to try out the platform. I think this workaround is helpful but s…

Thanks @paulyoung . That indeed looks related.

There is some difference between two issues: Here the top-up command reported success, but the canister’s cycles balance did not increase. In the create-canister thread the command reports an error.

No, nothing was added. I ran the top-up command again with 0.5 ICP and it worked that time, increasing cycles by about 2 trillion cycles. That’s why it has around 6 trillion now. So the 2 ICP did not get converted into cycles at all.

Thanks! That is helpful for the investigation. I’ve reached out to the teams. Most likely they will be able to look into this after the weekend. To double check: is it possible that during that time the canister was executing messages that send cycles to other canisters? Or drain cycles in any othe…

There is zero possibility canister was doing anything at that time. It was EXT v2 collection I’ve deployed for testing on live blockchain and have just deployed it before running the top-up command (to add in more cycles). I can share the code if required to you or the team (the code is not public),…

I see three canisters on that subnet that were created around the time of the report and have aiekw-byaaa-aaaal-abhwa-cai as the only controller: apfmc-maaaa-aaaal-abhwq-cai with balance 2399356663149 aggh6-2iaaa-aaaal-abhxa-cai with balance 2399403010404 abhbk-xqaaa-aaaal-abhxq-cai with ba…

The collection canister in question (aiekw) does deploy it’s asset canisters dynamically through code. However, the initial “minting” script in node failed due to not having enough cycles to create required asset canisters from the main “aiekw” canister and the script failed, after which I ran the c…

How can top-up be this broken and unstable ?!

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I’ve had a similar experience with creating canisters.

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How can top-up be this broken and unstable ?!

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