Public blockchain platform Solana (SOL) went down again in the early morning hours on Tuesday, according to several community members, as well as the major crypto exchange Coinbase, which warned users that Solana was experiencing "network-wide degraded performance."
Reportedly, an attacker used spam to conduct a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system. Ostensibly, it took the team five hours to resolve
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