Cloudflare Outage: Global Disruption Takes Crypto Sites Offline
A global Cloudflare outage caused widespread internet disruption, taking numerous crypto platforms offline with 500 internal server errors.Summary
A major, global outage affecting Cloudflare's internet services caused significant disruption on Tuesday, leading to downtime for many cryptocurrency front ends. Affected services included Toncoin, the Arbiscan block explorer, social media platform X, and data platform DefiLlama, all reporting intermittent "internal server errors" (500 errors). Cloudflare acknowledged the issue, stating they were investigating widespread 500 errors affecting customers, the dashboard, and the API. This incident followed a recent major outage experienced by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that impacted platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood. Crypto exchange BitMEX also reported investigating an outage linked to the Cloudflare issues. Following the news, Cloudflare Inc (NET) shares dropped 3.5% in pre-market trading.
(Source：CoinDesk)