{"id":341991,"date":"2021-09-21T05:32:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T02:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/solana-attributes-major-outage-to-denial-of-service-attack-targeting-dex-offering\/"},"modified":"2021-09-21T05:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T02:32:52","slug":"solana-attributes-major-outage-to-denial-of-service-attack-targeting-dex-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/solana-attributes-major-outage-to-denial-of-service-attack-targeting-dex-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"# Solana attributes major outage to denial-of-service attack targeting DEX offering"},"content":{"rendered":"

“# Solana attributes major outage to denial-of-service attack targeting DEX offering <\/strong>”
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Solana has attributed the 17-hour outage it suffered last week to a denial-of-service attack aimed at Grape Protocol\u2019s Sept. 14 initial DEX offering (IDO). <\/p>\n

In a Sept. 21 blog post<\/a>, the Solana Foundation stated that bots spammed the network as Grape launched its IDO on the Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Raydium at 12:00 UTC last Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The botting activity overwhelmed the network with a transaction load of 400,000 per second, with Solana noting that \u201cunbounded growth of the forwarder queues and resource-heavy blocks\u201d resulted in a number of forks being automatically proposed to the network. <\/p>\n

The attack caused Solana\u2019s network\u2019s validators to crash after running out of memory. As a result the network went offline for roughly 17 hours during Sept. 14 and Sept. 15. <\/p>\n

The recovery was led in collaboration between Solana engineers and more than 1,000 validators, with a hard fork being passed after receiving support from 80% of the network\u2019s active stakers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a coordinated effort by the community, not only in creating a patch, but in getting 80% of the network to come to consensus.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The foundation estimates that the network was patched, upgraded, and restored to full functionality within 18 hours of Solana going offline. <\/p>\n

The post added that the community is still working on providing a detailed \u201ctechnical post-mortem and root cause analysis report\u201d that will be released in the coming weeks<\/p>\n

Related: <\/em><\/strong>Smashing crypto adoption barrier? Solana aims to do its own \u2018thing\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The price of Solana (SOL) has performed bearishly since posting an all-time high of $213 on Sept. 9. Since then, SOL has pulled back by 39% to change hands for $129 at the time of writing. <\/p>\n

The retracement followed a meteoric couple of months for SOL, with the token surging 565% since trading for $32 on July 31.<\/p>\n