Network reportedly handles 6 Tbps attack with minimal visible impact
Solana, the high-performance blockchain, is reportedly under an industrial-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko stated the attack peaked near six terabits per second (Tbps), yet the network has shown little visible disruption.
Attack Scale and Network Resilience
A DDoS attack floods a network with traffic to overwhelm and slow operations. According to Solana-linked sources, the current attack could be among the largest in internet history, with billions of packets per second. Despite this, Solana continues to process transactions without major latency or confirmation delays, prompting Yakovenko to describe the situation as “bullish”.
The network has previously experienced multiple downtime events, including 17-hour outages in 2021 and several shorter disruptions in 2022 2024, often tied to transaction spam or consensus bugs. These incidents highlight Solana’s historical stability challenges relative to other blockchains, such as Bitcoin, which has maintained over 99.99% uptime with only two known downtime events since 2009.
The ongoing attack tests Solana’s infrastructure robustness and may influence how institutional and retail participants perceive network security. Analysts note that withstanding such high-volume DDoS attacks without disruption could strengthen confidence in Solana’s scalability and resilience for decentralized finance and high-throughput applications.
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