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Another network incident at Solana: outages and failed transactions



Solana is said to have been offline for 4 hours on Tuesday. But Solana.Status says there were no problems on the network.


With the Solana blockchain, there was a third incident within a few months, which caused a backlog on the network and many transactions did not go through. Users disagree as to whether this was another DDoS attack or whether it was just a network problem.


The extent and nature of this incident are difficult to determine. Coinbase, Wu Blockchain and Reddit users reported there was an incident that caused the network to slow down and transactions not go through. Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Jakowenko said there was no DDoS attack in this case.


There was already an attack less than a month ago in which it was said that there was a network backlog due to an initial DEX offering on the decentralized exchange platform Radium, in which bots were used heavily .



According to Wu Blockchain, the Solana network went down for about four hours on Tuesday as a result of a DDoS attack. Solana.Status shows that the network was fully functional during this period.


In a post in the r / CryptoCurrency group on Reddit, several screenshots were also posted on Tuesday by Solana ( SOL ) users reporting problems with failed SOL transactions at the time of the suspected DDoS attack and network outages. Coinbase has in the past 24 hours using the "reduced power" of Solana network reported , making payments of SOL failed at the crypto exchange.


"That's why you don't rely on the status page of a service, especially if it pretends to be a decentralized blockchain, but is actually just a glorified database," said Reddit user u / Set1Less.


Other users on the r / CryptoCurrency subreddit from the r / Solana community responded, questioning the veracity of the claims, as u / NiftyMufti explained:


"Instead of expressing other people's opinions, just showing the charts? A DDoS attack and failure will be seen in the block explorers. I don't see any such signs. Prove me wrong. What time and in what time zone is it supposed to happened? "

Yakovenko said on Tuesday on Twitter that the network problems had nothing to do with a DDoS attack, but only the "pain of commercializing a new runtime environment".


In another Twitter thread , Yakovenko also stated that "the compute cost model is still a bit shaky, the real solution to it comes in 1.9, where TXs have to specify in advance all the resources they will use".


In an interview with Cointelegraph on December 22nd, Austin Federa, director of communications at Solana Labs, said the developers are currently working on addressing the network's problems, particularly those related to improving transaction measurement.



"The Solana runtime is a new design. It doesn't use EVMs [Ethereum Virtual Machines] and much has been redesigned to ensure that users get the cheapest fees possible. In terms of runtime, there are much still to be done, "he explained.

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