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Key Notes Network metrics showed median transaction confirmations at 450 milliseconds and slot latency at 0-1 slots throughout the attack. Solana suffered three DDoS-related outages in 2021-2022, including a 17-hour shutdown in September 2021. The attack scale falls below the largest 2025 DDoS incidents, with Cloudflare reporting mitigated attacks exceeding 29 Tbps. Solana SOL $128.4 24h volatility: 3.3% Market cap: $72.17 B Vol. 24h: $5.88 B absorbed a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack peaking at approximately 6 terabits per second over multiple weeks without any network degradation, according to co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko. The attack occurred despite Solana’s history of DDoS-induced outages in 2021-2022. Yakovenko disclosed the attack on Dec. 9 and described the assault as the worst active threat against the network, according to his X post. Network timing remained unaffected, with slot latency at zero throughout. He characterized the situation as bullish and suggested that attackers were spending roughly as much as the chain generates in revenue just to send it traffic. Median 0 slot latency is the best breakpoint present. The 6 tbs ddos is the worst. Come on man, knock it off. Isn’t easier to launch a token instead. pic.twitter.com/YPFInpkHUZ — toly 🇺🇸 (@aeyakovenko) December 9, 2025 Infrastructure provider Pipe Network corroborated the performance claims, reporting that median transaction confirmations held at approximately 450 milliseconds with p90 confirmations under 700 milliseconds throughout the attack period. Pipe Network noted that a 6 Tbps volumetric attack typically translates to billions of packets per second directed at network infrastructure. The ongoing DDoS attack on @solana is one of the largest in internet history. 6 Tbps volumetric attack translates to billions of packets per second. Under that kind of load, you’d normally expect rising latency, missed slots, or confirmation delays. Instead, data shows:•… https://t.co/QxpzOBOSh2 pic.twitter.com/P601xSgHiE — Pipe Network (@pipenetwork) December 16,…

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