Solana Network Withstands Major DDoS Attack During Breakpoint 2025—Proving Resilience Under Fire

Solana just passed its toughest stress test yet—and didn't flinch.

The Attack That Couldn't Break Through

A massive, coordinated DDoS assault hit the network during its flagship Breakpoint 2025 conference. The timing was no accident—attackers aimed to cripple the chain during its biggest public moment.

Network Stays Up, Transactions Keep Flowing

While transaction times saw expected congestion, the core infrastructure held. No finality breaks. No prolonged outages. The network processed the attack traffic alongside legitimate user activity—a technical feat that would've collapsed lesser chains.

What This Means for the 'Ethereum Killer' Narrative

Past network issues haunted Solana's reputation. This real-world test under extreme conditions demonstrates tangible infrastructure improvements. It's one thing to claim high TPS in lab conditions—another to maintain operations while under digital artillery fire.

The Cynical Take Wall Street Won't Mention

Traditional finance spends millions on 'stress tests' that never simulate true panic. Solana just got a free, real-world audit from anonymous attackers—and passed. Meanwhile, your bank's disaster recovery plan collects dust in a three-ring binder.

Final verdict? Networks aren't judged by their whitepapers, but by how they perform when everything's on fire. Solana just walked through flames.

Solana’s Past Network Outages

Solana has gone through times characterized by disruptions or shutdowns in its operations. In December 2020, SOL experienced a shutdown caused by a block propagation bug. It also went through a 17-hour shutdown in September 2021 because the network was overwhelmed by transaction volume driven by a Raydium AcceleRaytor IDO.

Solana’s network has faced multiple downtime incidents over the years. Firstly, it lost seven hours to bot spam transactions, then another four and a half hours due to a bug in the failure of the consensus algorithm. 

Subsequently, in the year 2022, Solana experienced an outage of about 8.5 hours due to a bug in the function of the fork choice rules. There was only one major outage in 2023, which lasted almost 19 hours due to a fault in the deduplication logic, and another of about five hours in 2024 due to an infinite recompile loop bug.