Solana suffers another cyber incident, leading to slow performance

The Solana blockchain has suffered its third incident in just a few months, clogging the network and failing transactions, with users debating whether it was caused by another DDos attack or just a network issue.

The scale and nature of the incident is difficult to ascertain, with Coinbase, Wu Said Blockchain and Reddit users all reporting an incident that slowed the network and failed transactions. However Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, denied that there was a DDoS attack this time.

The latest incident comes less than a month after a previous attack, following reports that the network was downed by massive bot activity due to yet another initial DEX offering (IDO) on Solana-based decentralized exchange Radium. clogged.

According to Wu Blockchain, the Solana network was down for about four hours in the early hours of January 4th UTC due to an apparent DDoS attack. Solana.Status shows that the network has been fully operational during this period with 100% uptime.

Solana crashed again at 2 am (UTC+8) on January 4th. Users on the official Telegram community said that the attackers are suspected of using spam emails for DDoS attacks.

— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) January 4, 2022

A post on Reddit’s r/CryptoCurrency subreddit yesterday also shared several screenshots of Solana (SOL) users reporting potential DDoS and SOL transaction failures before and after network outages. Coinbase also provided an incident report in the past 24 hours about a “performance degradation” on the Solana network that caused withdrawals from the crypto exchange SOL to fail.

“This is why you don’t use a service’s own status page to draw conclusions, especially if it’s masquerading as a decentralized blockchain when it’s really just a glorified database,” user u/Set1Less wrote.

But other users in the r/Solana community who responded to the r/CryptoCurrency post questioned the validity of those claims, with “NiftyMufti” saying:

"So, instead of randomly echoing someone else's opinion, why not show the graph? DDoS attacks and outages will show up in the block explorer. I don't see any signs of this. Prove me wrong. What time zone should this be in When did it happen?"

Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, echoed the same sentiment on Twitter earlier today, noting that the network issues had nothing to do with DDoS, but just "the pain of commercializing a new runtime."

In an interview with Cointelegraph on Dec. 22, Solana Labs director of communications Austin Federa said developers are currently working to fix issues with the network, particularly in terms of improving transaction metering.

"Solana's runtime is a new design. It doesn't use the EVM [Ethereum Virtual Machine] and has done a lot of innovation to ensure users have the cheapest fees, but there is still work to be done on the runtime," He said.

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