Outage News

Reports on blockchain network outages, exchange downtime, and technical disruptions.

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data-center floor shows glowing cables leading up to a cracked AWS cloud radiating orange shockwaves over a bright world map as the logos of Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Linea, Base, and Scroll orbit dramatically.

Outage

How today’s AWS glitch took down Coinbase, ETH L2s, and half the internet

Crypto's dependence on AWS highlights the irony of centralization within decentralized ecosystems.

6 months ago

A luminous orange cloud hovers above a glowing, networked Earth as a bright circular shockwave ripples across continents, echoing through a sunlit data center.

Technology

How a single computer file accidentally took down 20% of the internet on Tuesday – in plain English

A tiny Cloudflare bot-file glitch exposed how fragile the internet’s core really is.

5 months ago

A towering Cloudflare server monolith erupts with teal and orange data streams over a glowing world map, symbolizing a centralized internet bottleneck triggering a dramatic, globally felt blackout.

Outage

The internet is still broken: A “failed” centralized bottleneck caused the global internet blackout today

A Cloudflare outage exposed the internet’s fragility as services worldwide faltered.

5 months ago

DeFi

If Web3 is decentralized, why do DeFi dApps still break when the cloud goes down?

For all its talk of decentralization, Web3 still lives inside the same data centers as everyone else, and October’s cloud failure made that impossible to ignore.

5 months ago

Outage

Ethereum layer-2 solutions Linea and Polygon stumble with outages and finality delays

Linea's outage ahead of token airdrop and Polygon's finality delay raise questions about Ethereum layer-2 reliability.

7 months ago

Outage

Starknet resumes block production after major outage following Grinta upgrade

Post-outage, Starknet's token suffers as team works to mitigate future disruptions with transparency and updates.

7 months ago

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Exchanges

Binance futures $90B market went offline last night before 25 minute recovery

The quick fix leaves unanswered questions on what broke inside Binance’s engine.

7 months ago

Outage

Coinbase’s Base resumes block production after brief outage

The outage led to service disruption that impacted deposits, withdrawals, and general block production on the blockchain network.

8 months ago

Hacks

Sui-based Cetus Protocol suspends operations following $223 million oracle exploit

The Cetus exploit caused a drop in Sui ecosystem token prices, affecting user confidence and liquidity providers alike.

11 months ago

AWS outage exposes crypto industry’s vulnerability to centralized infrastructure

Exchanges 12 months ago

Solana celebrates a year without network failures as ecosystem thrives

Technology 1 year ago

XRP Ledger resumes activity after second outage in three months

Technology 1 year ago

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Outage News

How today’s AWS glitch took down Coinbase, ETH L2s, and half the internet

How a single computer file accidentally took down 20% of the internet on Tuesday – in plain English

The internet is still broken: A “failed” centralized bottleneck caused the global internet blackout today

If Web3 is decentralized, why do DeFi dApps still break when the cloud goes down?

Ethereum layer-2 solutions Linea and Polygon stumble with outages and finality delays

Starknet resumes block production after major outage following Grinta upgrade

Binance futures $90B market went offline last night before 25 minute recovery

Coinbase’s Base resumes block production after brief outage

Sui-based Cetus Protocol suspends operations following $223 million oracle exploit

AWS outage exposes crypto industry’s vulnerability to centralized infrastructure

Solana celebrates a year without network failures as ecosystem thrives

XRP Ledger resumes activity after second outage in three months