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Solana Announces What Was Really Behind Last Week’s “Frustrating” Outage

Solana Foundation posted a detailed post-mortem explaining what they believe was a denial-of-service attack. 

Last week Solana suffered an almost 17-hour network outage. According to the Solana Foundation, “The cause of the network stall was, in effect, a denial of service attack.”

Recommended: Check out our detailing of the Solana blackout.

  • According to their blog, during Grape protocol’s IDO launch the network became overwhelmed by bots battling for the coin offering.
  • The community noticed the problem in real time, and “took steps to help the network recover,” but were ultimately unsuccessful.
  • FTX CEO and major Solana investor Sam Bankman-Fried isn’t concerned about Solana’s security moving forward: “If it were to happen again today, it would be fine. I think that that has been patched. It’s always sad when these happen, it’s always frustrating — but I don’t think that it’s particularly a security thing.”
  • It appears based on Solana Foundation’s analysis that a malicious attack has been ruled out.
  • Solana’s SOL token is down 5% trading in the $138 range.

For more on Solana check out our guide.

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