Solana was purportedly targeted by a DDoS attack, but the network remained operational.

Solana’s blockchain performance has apparently been harmed by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault in the last 24 hours, although the network appears to have remained operational throughout.

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault is when a large number of coordinated devices, such as a botnet, flood a network with bogus traffic in order to bring it down.

This would not be the first time the platform has had this problem; in September, it has been reported that the network experienced a 17-hour downtime owing to significant botting activity for an initial DEX offering (IDO) on Solana-based DEX platform Raydium.

Blockasset, a Solana-based NFT platform, announced the latest DDoS assault on December 9 at 3 p.m. UTC, noting that:

We are aware tokens are taking a long time to distribute. The Solana chain is being overloaded with DDoS attacks which have clogged the network causing delays

GenesysGo, a Solana-focused infrastructure startup, also reported on the topic, noting that the validator network was encountering difficulty with processing transaction requests, but that the problem was due to “growing pains.”

At this point, the nature of the event is unknown because the platform has not to officially disclose any assaults, despite the fact that Status. It indicates that the network has not had any disruptions and is fully operating at the time of writing.

However, many Twitter accounts claimed that the platform had a global outage, with Verbit CEO Roy Murphy (a BSV supporter) declaring that “Solana collapsed again and is now unavailable.” Engineers are investigating the possibility of’rebooting the system.’ You can’t possibly make this up!”

Members of the r/Solana subreddit blamed the network congestion on another IDO launch on Raydium earlier today, with user “u/Psilodelic” making a post titled “Why do Raydium IDOs block the Solana network and what is being done about it?”

In response, one of the group’s moderators, “Laine sa,” could not specifically clarify if the Solana network’s troubles were due to Raydium, but did highlight that there had been intentional “stop gaps” put in place to keep Solana up since the September DDoS attack:

Right now there’s a stop-gap in place that prioritizes vote transactions to prevent a full crash, there are additional changes to compute limits and fees relating to this in the works but it’s not a quick fix that can be rolled out in a few weeks which is why it’s taking time. It’s being looked at however.

Patrick

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