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When a network brags about throughput, it’s really bragging about how much chaos it can swallow before it chokes. That’s why the most interesting part of Solana’s latest “stress test” is that there’s no story at all. A delivery network called Pipe published data that put a recent barrage against Solana at roughly 6 terabits per second, and Solana’s co-founders backed the broad thrust of it in public posts. If the number is right, it’s the kind of traffic volume usually reserved for the internet’s biggest targets, the sort of thing Cloudflare writes long blog posts about because it isn’t supposed to be normal. And yet Solana kept producing blocks. There was no coordinated restart or validator-wide group chat turning into a late-night disaster movie. CryptoSlate’s own reporting on the incident said block production remained steady and confirmations kept moving, with no meaningful jump in user fees. There was even a counterpoint tucked into the chatter: SolanaFloor noted that an Anza contributor argued the 6 Tbps number was a short peak burst rather than a constant week-long wall of traffic, which matters because “peak” can be both true and slightly theatrical. That kind of nuance is fine. In real-world denial-of-service, the peak is often the point, because a short punch can still knock over a system tuned for a steady state. Cloudflare’s threat reporting points out how many large attacks end quickly, sometimes too quickly for humans to react, which is why modern defense is supposed to be automatic. Solana’s latest incident now shows a network that learned how to make spam boring. What kind of attack was this, and what do attackers actually want? A DDoS is the internet’s crudest but most effective weapon: overwhelm a target’s normal traffic by flooding it with junk traffic from many machines at…

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