Yes there's much higher transaction volume, you can choose pay higher fees to speed up.
Monero
This is the lemmy community of Monero (XMR), a secure, private, untraceable currency that is open-source and freely available to all.
Wallets
Android (Cake Wallet) / (Monero.com)
iOS (Cake Wallet) / (Monero.com)
Instance tags for discoverability:
Monero, XMR, crypto, cryptocurrency
Blocks and transactions run as normal.
Transaction pool https://xmrchain.net/
If you use a remote node then make sure that it is reliable. If in doubt, use the one from hashvault pool for example.
Enter the recommended block list if you are running a node.
I've just realized that there are actually around two thousand transactions in the TX Pool. If a transaction is to be faster, the fee must be increased. no of txs: 1952, size: 13484.91 kB
At this moment, the transaction pool is back to normal.