Originally published at: What now for Solana following ‘Candy Machine’ spam attack? (Cryptoslate) – We Never See Nothing
The Solana blockchain went offline for seven hours on Saturday evening following a bot attack that flooded the network. Bots sent millions of transactions per second via the ‘Candy Machine’ NFT minting protocol. The resulting congestion knocked out consensus and crashed nodes, as validators failed to cope with traffic volume. “Solana Mainnet Beta lost consensus…