Solana Under ‘industrial Scale’ Ddos Attack: Co-founder Says It’s...
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko claims the network is facing an industrial-scale 6 Tbps DDoS attack that has shown little visible impact.
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and several accounts tied to the network’s ecosystem said this week that Solana had been hit by a large distributed denial-of-service attack, with some posts citing traffic that peaked near six terabits per second (Tbps).
Yakovenko wrote in a Dec. 9 X post that Solana was under a six Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Earlier on Tuesday, Solana Labs co-founder and president Raj Gokal suggested the attack was still ongoing. Cointelegraph was unable to independently verify the attack or its scale.
Also on Tuesday, the CEO of Solana-based decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) project Pipe Network, David Rhodus, pointed out that the shared metric put the attack at an “industrial-scale.” In an update, Pipe Petwork also claimed that the attack was “one of the largest in internet history,” as six Tbps “translates to billions of packets per second.”
A DDoS attack involves many devices flooding a target with traffic to overwhelm it and knock it offline or slow it down. A chart shared by Pipe Network suggested that Solana has faced the fourth-largest DDoS attack ever reported. Still, in 2025 alone, Cloudflare reported a 29.7 Tbps attack, KrebsOnSecurity reported a 6.3 Tbps attack, and Gcore disclosed a six Tbps attack, with none appearing on Pipe Network’s chart.
Yakovenko wrote in a Dec. 9 post that the attack was “bullish,” also suggesting that “someone is spending as much as the chain makes in revenue to send it.” Similarly, Pipe Network highlighted that “under that kind of load, you’d normally expect rising latency, missed slots, or confirmation delays,” while the network was not showing any significant signs of stress.
Solana Labs had not answered Cointelegraph’s request for comment by publication.
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Solana has a history of multiple downtimes, some of which were tied to DDoS-like causes. In December 2020, a block propagation bug halted the network operation. Back in September 2021, Solana’s mainnet saw a 17-hour downtime as Grape Protocol’s launch of its onchain initial DEX offering (IDO) on the crowdfunding platform Raydium AcceleRaytor overwhelmed the network, much like a DDoS would.
In 2022, Solana saw three downtime instances. First, it experienced seven hours of downtime due
Source: CoinTelegraph
