Cardano Network Resists DDoS: Details

Cardano was hit by a DDoS assault late Tuesday, a massive increase of malicious activity meant to disrupt its operations. However, the blockchain's resilient protections prevented the assault, maintaining stability and functionality.

DDoS Does Not Affect Cardano

Fluid Token's Chief Technology Officer said the assault began on block 10,487,530, with each transaction running 194 REWARD smart contracts and costing 0.9 ADA. This method filled each block with complicated transactions to generate a backlog and slow the network. “This way, they can send large transactions while spending the least amount,” @ElRaulito_cnft said.


Anastasia founder Philip Disarro likely neutralized the danger. Disarro's swift public reaction to X may have prompted the assailant to stop.

“DDOSer stopped attacking after reading my tweet to protect his funds. They were too late; their money are being stolen. I appreciate the free money, fool. Truly remarkable that the attacker who sought to disrupt the ecosystem donated to Anastasia Labs' open-source smart contract research effort and funded Midgard, Disarro told X.

The Cardano community keenly followed the issue. Major Cardano content producer Big Pey reassured the community via X, saying, “Someone tried to DDOS Cardano today. Nothing much occurred, and the network didn't collapse. ADA endures.” The community shared this faith in the network's reliability and security.

The Art of Selling Art creator Jason Matias visualised the DDoS attack's effect on network operations. The current Cardano DDoS assault looks like this. Matias said that network monitoring tools showed spam transactions as gray gear symbols, producing bigger, harder-to-process blocks.

The extended Unspent Transaction Output (eUTxO) paradigm helped Cardano mitigate the DDoS assault. Other prominent blockchains like Ethereum employ account-based methods, however this concept is different.

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