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Over the past years, the institutional knock against Solana was simple: the network broke under pressure. This week, the network quietly absorbed a distributed denial-of-service attack peaking at about 6 terabits per second, according to data from delivery network Pipe. This was corroborated by Solana co-founders, including Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal. If those figures […] The post Solana just absorbed a historic DDoS attack, and the silence tells investors everything they need to know appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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 “translat...

The Qubic mining pool, which is attempting a 51% takeover of Monero, is allegedly being hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack linked to the Monero community. Update (Aug. 4, 2025, at 1:50 pm UTC): This article has been updated to add commentary by XMRig developer Sergei Chernykh. A mining pool behind an attempted 51% takeover of Monero is reportedly under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, disrupting the effectiveness of its attempt. In a Sunday X post, Sergey Ivancheglo, who claims responsibility for the takeover attempt, said the Qubic mining pool he controls is under a DDoS attack. He added that the attack resulted in the mining pool’s hashrate falling from 2.6 gigahashes per second down to 0.8 GH/s. Read more