Solana Under 'Industrial Scale' DDoS Attack, Co-Founder Claims
Solana has experienced a large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, with network traffic reportedly peaking at six terabits per second, making it one of the largest attacks in internet history. Despite the scale, Solana's core operations have not shown significant stress or latency issues. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko described the attack as "bullish," suggesting substantial resources were used against the network. Solana has a history of outages, many due to similar attacks or bugs: notable occurrences include a 17-hour downtime in September 2021, three outages in 2022 due to spam and bugs, nearly 19 hours of downtime in February 2023 resulting from a deduplication logic fault, and a five-hour outage in 2024 from a recompile loop bug. Although downtime incidents have decreased, Solana's reliability still lags behind Bitcoin, which has had only two downtime incidents—one in 2010 and one in 2013—since its launch, maintaining over 99.99% uptime.
