On June 21, Cloudflare, the network services provider, warned of a global outage affecting its services. Cryptocurrency exchanges experienced technical issues.
The Cloudflare team is aware of the current service issues and is working to resolve as quickly as possible. Updates can be followed here. https://t.co/22Yiyu3lKJ
— Cloudflare (@Cloudflare) June 21, 2022
The American company provides CDN services, DDoS protection, secure access to resources, and DNS servers.
In the wake of the outage, FTX warned that access to its site would be difficult for most users. The platform switched markets to post-only mode.
Cloudflare is experiencing an outage, and so FTX and many other sites are going to be hard to access for many users. FTX markets are in post-only mode.
— FTX (@FTX_Official) June 21, 2022
Bitfinex’s CTO Paolo Ardoino also confirmed that internet service problems affected the platform, as did many other online platforms.
Seems (regional) cloudflare issues are affecting many platforms https://t.co/jpiaEhaIOr
— Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) June 21, 2022
Coinbase reported connectivity issues accessing its retail and institutional trading platforms.
“This could lead to failed trades, delayed transactions, and unforeseen scenarios on the webpage and in mobile apps,” warned the traders’ exchange.
We’re experiencing connectivity issues across Coinbase and Coinbase Pro. This may cause failed trades, delayed transactions, and unexpected behavior on the webpage and mobile apps. We are actively working on the issue and will post an update soon.
— Coinbase Support (@CoinbaseSupport) June 21, 2022
OKX CEO Jay Hao told users that the inability to visit the exchange’s site is likely related to Cloudflare issues.
“Looks like a global internet outage, things should be back to normal soon. Any Web3-alternative in the future?,” he added.
In case you’re not able to visit https://t.co/GrBdKl0wkQ and “500 Internal Server Error” pops up, it seems to be an issue on #Cloudflare’s end.
Looks like a global internet outage, things should be back to normal soon.
Any web3 alternative in the future?
— jay_star.lens | OKX CEO (@Jay_OKX) June 21, 2022
One user reported that the outage affected the European bitcoin exchange WhiteBit and the DeFi protocol PancakeSwap, as well as the popular crypto-community platform Discord.
#cloudflare Reporting issues with their service. Please note this is also affecting the #EverGrowEGC website @evergrowcoinEGC — also PancakeSwap, WhiteBit and a few other websites — including all of Discord. Things should be back to normal soon. https://t.co/fBjgVrqOCw
— CPdoge (@CPdoge) June 21, 2022
In October 2021, a DNS-record outage occurred that affected Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Amazon Web Services and many others.
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