Solana attributes major outage to denial-of-service attack targeting DEX offering

Cointelegraph

Published Sep 20, 2021 10:32PM ET

Updated Sep 22, 2021 12:40AM ET

Solana has attributed the 17-hour outage it suffered last week to a denial-of-service attack aimed at Grape Protocol’s Sept. 14 initial DEX offering (IDO).

In a Tuesday blog post, 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.

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