Solana allegedly hit with DDoS attack, but network remains online

Solana’s blockchain performance has reportedly been under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack over the past 24 hours, however, the network appears to have remained online.

A DDoS attack typically involves a large number of coordinated devices or botnets using fake traffic to overwhelm a network, taking it offline.

This isn’t the first time Solana has run into this kind of problem, with Cointelegraph reporting in September that the network suffered a 17-hour outage due to massive hangup activity during initial DEX offerings (IDOs) on Solana-based DEX platform Raydium .

At around 3pm UTC on Dec. 9, Solana-based NFT platform Blockasset highlighted the latest DDoS attack, stating:

“We know that distributing tokens takes a long time. The Solana chain is suffering from a DDoS attack, which is clogging the network and causing delays.”

Solana-focused infrastructure firm GenesysGo also reported the matter, saying the validator network was having trouble processing transaction requests, but appealing for calm as it blamed the problems on "growing pains."

Currently, the Solana Foundation has not publicly confirmed any attacks, and the nature of the incident is unclear, while Status.Solana shows that at the time of writing, the network has not suffered any disruption and is fully operational.

However, multiple accounts on Twitter claimed that Solana had suffered a global outage, and Verbit CEO Roy Murphy (a BSV supporter) said: "Solana has crashed again and is currently offline. Engineers are working on 'rebooting the system'." Said Really, you can't make up such a thing!"

Earlier today, members of reddit's r/Solana subreddit blamed another IDO launch on Raydium for the network congestion, with user "u/Psilodelic" writing an article titled "Why Raydium IDOs are clogging the Solana network, and what to do about it any idea?"

"My biggest concern right now is the impact on Solana performance from the high volume activity associated with the Raydium IDO and launch... Every single performance issue in the past 6 months, including 17 hours of downtime, has been caused by caused by activation," they wrote.

In response, one of the group's moderators, "Laine_sa," did not explicitly confirm whether Solana's network issues were again Raydium-related, but did note that since the September DDoS attack, consistent "stop-fixes" had been put in place to keep Solana online:

"There is a stopgap fix right now to prioritize voting transactions and prevent a full blown crash, and there are some related compute limit and fee changes in the works, but it's not a quick fix that can be rolled out in a few weeks, it's That's why it takes time. We're working on it, though."

Cointelegraph has reached out to multiple Solana developers for comment on the DDoS attack and will update the story if they respond.

According to data from Coingecko, the price of Solana (SOL) is down 6.4% over the past 24 hours to $182.79 at the time of writing. SOL is down 26.1% over the past 30 days as most of the top crypto assets retreat.

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