- Decentralised finance (DeFi) projects are pumping hard — a little too hard for some to handle, like Solana and Ethereum-backed Arbirtum One.
- The Solana blockchain network was down for hours after seeing 400,000 transactions per second.
- The system has since been rebooted but it’s gonna be a while before applications and other systems based on Solana are back to full functionality.
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A surge in transactions caused the Ethereum-backed Arbitrum One network’s sequencer to go offline for 45 minutes.
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Meanwhile, hackers were trying to breach the Ethereum blockchain — albeit, unsuccessfully.