Solana has attributed the 17-hr outage it suffered last week to a denial-of-service assail aimed at Grape Protocol'due south Sept. 14 initial DEX offer (IDO).

In a Tuesday web log post, the Solana Foundation stated that bots spammed the network equally Grape launched its IDO on the Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Raydium at 12:00 UTC last Tuesday.

The botting activeness overwhelmed the network with a transaction load of 400,000 per 2nd, with Solana noting that "unbounded growth of the forwarder queues and resource-heavy blocks" resulted in a number of forks being automatically proposed to the network.

The attack caused Solana's network validators to crash after running out of memory. As a event, the network went offline for roughly 17 hours during Sept. 14 and 15.

The recovery was led past a collaboration amidst Solana engineers and more than 1,000 validators, with a hard fork being passed later on receiving support from fourscore% of the network's agile stakers.

"This was a coordinated attempt by the community, non simply in creating a patch, but in getting 80% of the network to come to consensus."

The foundation estimates that the network was patched, upgraded, and restored to total functionality inside 18 hours of Solana going offline.

The post added that the community is still working on providing a detailed "technical mail-mortem and root cause assay report" that will be released in the coming weeks

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The price of Solana (SOL) has performed bearishly since posting an all-time high of $213 on Sept. nine. Since then, SOL has pulled dorsum by 39% to change hands for $129 at the time of writing.

The retracement followed a meteoric couple of months for SOL, with the token surging 565% since trading for $32 on July 31.