Solana: Suffered DDoS Attacks Throughout the Past Week, But Did Not Impact Network Performance

On December 16, Solana issued an official statement noting that over the past week, the network has been targeted by continuous DDoS attacks—the fourth largest such incident in the history of any distributed system to date. So far, these attacks have had no impact on Solana’s network performance. Solana’s design goal is to be resilient enough to withstand even such extreme scenarios. BlockBeats Note: A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack occurs when an attacker controls a large number of devices to simultaneously send massive volumes of requests to a target system, aiming to exhaust its network bandwidth or computing resources—resulting in system congestion, service disruptions, or performance degradation.