{"id":63813,"date":"2025-12-16T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=63813"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:01:32","slug":"solana-hit-by-one-of-the-largest-ddos-attacks-in-internet-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=63813","title":{"rendered":"Solana Hit By One Of The Largest DDoS Attacks In Internet History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Solana has been battling what some ecosystem builders are calling an internet-scale DDoS campaign \u2014 and, despite the usual \u201cSolana is fragile\u201d jokes, the network seems to be shrugging it off.<\/p>\n

Pipe Network said of the ongoing attack via X today: \u201cThe ongoing DDoS attack on Solana is one of the largest in internet history. 6 Tbps volumetric attack translates to billions of packets per second. Under that kind of load, you\u2019d normally expect rising latency, missed slots, or confirmation delays.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pipe further says that\u2019s not what the data is showing. \u201cMedian tx confirmation ~450ms,\u201d the team wrote, adding that p90 remains under 700ms and slot latency is holding at 0\u20131 slots. In other words, if you\u2019re a regular user or trader, you might not even know anything\u2019s happening. Which is kind of the point.<\/p>\n

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Reactions From The Solana Community<\/h2>\n

Raj Gokal, Solana Labs\u2019 co-founder and COO, put it more bluntly in a reply<\/a> to a broader DDoS debate: \u201chave you heard about the ongoing DDOS against Solana that has had zero effect on performance?\u201d<\/p>\n

The backdrop here matters. Justin Bons had posted about Sui being DDoS\u2019d yesterday, claiming it triggered \u201cmass delays\u201d and arguing that \u201c127 validators is not enough,\u201d with the broader warning: don\u2019t let validator counts drift too low if you want a chain to be resilient.<\/p>\n

Mert Mumtaz<\/a>, CEO of Helius, largely agreed with the premise \u2014 but pushed back on the simplistic \u201cmore validators = solved\u201d framing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand your point & mostly agree with you,\u201d Mert wrote, before adding that \u201ca chain is more resistant to DDoS with 100 professional high powered validators compared to 10k validators run by amateurs.\u201d He also said there are scenarios where higher validator count can help, but emphasized it isn\u2019t the core defense by itself. Then he dropped the key detail: Solana\u2019s attack hasn\u2019t been a one-day headline, it\u2019s been going on for a while.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd fyi there has been a colossal ddos attack on Solana for weeks now,\u201d Mert wrote, later adding that Solana \u201chas been under a colossal DDoS attack for at least over a week now btw\u201d \u2014 and that the fact most users haven\u2019t felt it is \u201ca big testament to the level of engineering present here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko chimed in with a more technical angle on why validator count can matter in specific leader-hand-off dynamics: \u201cValidators count helps if the previous leader can finish their block while the current one is being hit. Then the cost of ddos approaches the cost of ddos the whole network.\u201d<\/p>\n

Translation: if an attacker wants to reliably disrupt block production, they may have to sustain pressure across more of the network, not just pick off a single leader at the wrong moment. That gets expensive fast.<\/p>\n

SolanaFloor summed it up via X: \u201cSolana has been under a sustained DDoS attack for the past week, peaking near 6 Tbps, the 4th largest attack ever recorded for any distributed system. Network data shows no impact, with sub second confirmations and stable slot latency. The Sui network<\/a> was also targeted by a DDoS attack yesterday, resulting in delays in block production and periods of degraded network performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s a more strategic takeaway that\u2019s starting to sound less theoretical each month: blockchains are now juicy targets. David Rhodus, founder of Permissionless Labs (and a contributor to Pipe Network), said<\/a>: \u201cThis puts Solana among the most heavily DDoSed targets in internet history. It reinforces that blockchains are now Tier-1 DDoS targets. This is not \u201cscript kiddie\u201d activity \u2014 6 Tbps is industrial-scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a validator, Mumtaz offered the practical advice you\u2019d expect in a week like this: have backups across multiple hosting providers and regions. Because even if the chain holds, your own infrastructure might not.<\/p>\n

The broader point, though, is the new baseline: these networks are getting stress-tested like mainstream internet services now. Solana\u2019s claim today is that it passed \u2014 quietly, under load, and without users noticing. That\u2019s the kind of victory that doesn\u2019t look dramatic on a chart. It just [\u2026] works.<\/p>\n

At press time, Solana traded at $126.<\/p>\n

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Solana has been battling what some ecosystem builders are calling an internet-scale DDoS campaign \u2014 and, despite the usual \u201cSolana is fragile\u201d jokes, the network seems to be shrugging it off. Pipe Network said of the ongoing attack via X today: \u201cThe ongoing DDoS attack on Solana is one of the largest in internet history. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-63813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}