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Solana was reportedly under DDoS attack, but the network is still online

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According to reports, Solana’s blockchain performance has been under distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the past 24 hours, but the network seems to be always online.

A DDoS attack usually refers to a large number of coordinated devices, or a botnet flooding the network with fake traffic to make it offline.

This is not the first time Solana Encountered this problem, Cointelegraph reported in September that the network Suffered a 17-hour power outage Due to large-scale robotic activities based on Solana’s initial DEX product (IDO) DEX platform Raydium.

At around 3 pm UTC on December 9th, Solana-based NFT platform Blockasset highlighted the latest DDoS attack. It pointed out:

“We know that it takes a long time for tokens to be distributed. The Solana chain is overloaded by DDoS attacks, which block the network and cause delays.”

GenesysGo, an infrastructure company that focuses on Solana, also reported the incident, saying that the validator network encountered problems in processing transaction requests, but called for calmness because it blamed the problem on “growth troubles.”

At this stage, the nature of the incident is unclear because Solana Foundation No attacks have been publicly confirmed, and Status.Solana shows that the network has not suffered any disruptions and is fully operational at the time of writing.

However, multiple accounts on Twitter assertion Solana suffered a global power outage, Verbit CEO Roy Murphy (and BSV supporter) statement “Solana crashed again and is currently offline. Engineers are working on “rebooting the system”. Seriously, you can’t make up this shit!”.

Members of r/Solana subreddit earlier today Attributed to The network blocked the release of another IDO on Raydium, and the user “u/Psilodelic” wrote a post titled “Why Raydium IDO is blocking the Solana network and what measures are being taken on this?”.

“My biggest concern for Solana right now is the performance impact during a large number of events related to Raydium IDO and releases. In fact, every performance issue in the past 6 months, including the 17-hour outage, was posted on Raydium As a result,” they wrote.

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In response, a moderator of the organization “Laine_sa” did not clearly confirm whether Solana’s network problems were again related to Raydium, but did point out that since the DDoS attack, a coordinated “stop gap” has been taken to keep Solana online. September:

“There is a stopgap measure, prioritizing voting transactions to prevent a complete collapse, there are other changes in the calculation of limits and fees, but this is not a quick solution that can be rolled out in a few weeks. That’s why it takes time. However, it is being observed.”

Cointelegraph has contacted multiple Solana developers to comment on the DDoS attack, and if they respond, the story will be updated.

According to data from Coingecko, as of the time of writing, the price of Solana (SOL) has fallen by 6.4% in the past 24 hours to $182.79. In the callback of most top crypto assets, SOL has fallen by 26.1% in the past 30 days.