{"id":54435,"date":"2021-12-10T10:59:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T08:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54435"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:26:12","slug":"users-report-a-new-outage-on-the-solana-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/users-report-a-new-outage-on-the-solana-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Users report a new outage on the Solana network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 9, the Solana network appears to have been hit by a DDoS attack, according to user reports. The developers did not comment on the information.<\/p>\n<p>The media later cited a tweet from the <span data-descr=\"non-fungible tokens\" class=\"old_tooltip\">NFT<\/span>-platform Blockasset, which was subsequently deleted, that discussed the distribution of its native token BLOCK:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abWe know that distributing tokens takes a long time. Solana is overwhelmed by DDoS attacks, which clogged the network, causing delays\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Solana Chain was hit by a DDoS attack and being overloaded. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qrAIoDcQ7g\">https:\/\/t.co\/qrAIoDcQ7g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WuBlockchain\/status\/1468972039088132096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Solana?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Solana<\/a> validator network is experiencing issues this morning. TPS issues as the network works to process txn requests. <br \/>Remember, this is blockchain \ud83d\ude0a If your txn ID went through then it\u2019s not lost, just pending. Growing pains is all! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Zfagq092M\">pic.twitter.com\/2Zfagq092M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GenesysGo (@GenesysGo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GenesysGo\/status\/1468955593037651973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The founder of the Solend lending platform confirmed a slowdown in transaction processing, noting that it remains about 30 times higher than Ethereum.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">solana&#8217;s tps is down<\/p>\n<p>but it&#8217;s still 30x higher than ethereum <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y2ofSLPaYm\">pic.twitter.com\/Y2ofSLPaYm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 R\ud83d\udc3dter (@0xrooter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xrooter\/status\/1468964849988534272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Verbit CEO Roy Murphy said there was a global outage of Solana; however, according to data, the network did not stop operating.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abThe Solana blockchain was subjected to a DDoS attack and overload. The network is not working worldwide. Bitcoin solves this problem\u00bb, \u2014 wrote him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/coinyeezy\/status\/1468999554796339206\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Solana Foundation, the organization behind the project, publicly did not confirm the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 24 hours, the price of the Solana token (SOL) has fallen by 7.5% (CoinGecko). At the time of writing, this is the largest decline among the top-cap cryptocurrencies, though all are in the red.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/5SSqltkhMyn0Z9qYSQ6CpXNwHK0UOdcIrW_Udu4kIefFxIaz1tYkCv_WNRLcMS9itAy5fAXvQqZr_Np_tpyY_SoZ-OrM4PM79eQ8ysrqqFxE4Gdgo2ozGynu_ODz4KRA2wpYY1p6\" alt=\"Users reported a new outage in the Solana network\"\/><figcaption>Data: CoinGecko.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back on September 14, 2021, the Solana network <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/solana-network-restarts-after-major-outage\">experienced an outage of on-chain activity<\/a>. New blocks did not emerge for more than 16 hours, and to resume operation the blockchain <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/solana-network-restarts-after-major-outage\">required a restart<\/a>. The developers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/solana-developers-identify-cause-of-major-outage\">attributed it to a DDoS attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 9, the Solana network appears to have been subjected to a DDoS attack, according to user reports. 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