According to the team at Pipe Network, a decentralized content delivery network built on top of Solana, Solana has suffered the fourth largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in recorded history. This episode also reached Sui Network.
DDoS typically impacts digital infrastructure such as servers, communication networks, and online services by: Limits our ability to process legitimate requests. The purpose is to use up available resources and impede or prevent normal functioning.
The attack on Solana recorded “peaks close to 6 Tbps (terabits per second).” This spike means the volume of malicious traffic has reached nearly 6 terabits of data per second.
To measure this, 1 terabit is equal to 1 trillion bits transmitted every second. Practically speaking, it is Enough information to saturate the infrastructure Most traditional internet services.
that level of traffic Service interruptions typically occur Performance can be significantly slower in distributed systems.
Mr. Solana’s data reflects that he correctly condoned the attack.
Timing of Solana DDoS attack unknown
Sources in the Solana ecosystem disagree on when the DDoS occurred.
The CEO of Solana Floor, an analytics site focused on the Solana ecosystem, and Helius Labs, a company known as “mert” on X, said the attack took place “last week,” although he declined to provide a date.
network measurements No visible operational impact was observed.according to Solana Floor.
For example, the chain maintained transaction confirmations of less than 1 second and latency of 10 minutes. slot Stability (the time it takes for the network to generate new blocks) is a central metric for assessing continuity of operation.
Meanwhile, Pipe Network assured on December 16th: Attacks on networks continue.
At the time of this article, metrics such as block processing (4 seconds) and transactions per second (TPS) indicate typical volumes for Solana (3,000-4,000 TPS).
Additionally, the network health status is currently 98%, indicating that the network is operating very close to optimal conditions.
In short, these metrics indicate that if Solana is indeed currently under a DDoS attack, as Pipe Network suggests: The network resists without changing its proper functioning..
Finally, the Sui network was also attacked via DDoS. Unlike Solana and Sui There was a delay in block production. Periods of degraded performance according to Solana Floor.
This means that the network had difficulty processing transactions successfully during the attack.