A few days ago, the Cardano blockchain went under a malicious DDoS attack where an attacker started to spam the network with scripts to try and slow down the network and stop it from working.

It failed with the attacker losing out the most in the end!

This video breaks down what happened and how the Cardano community came together to come up with a solution and stop the attack from happening.

Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:36 Quick Summary 02:08 The Attackers Wallet 03:34 Solution to the DDoS Attack 04:45 Answer to the attacker 06:40 Phil's explanation 10:17 Deep Dive Technical Explanation 10:45 Takeaways 11:11 Hall of Fame 12:37 Final comments

All links and referencesces used in this video

Update from Intersect post attack https://x.com/IntersectMBO/status/1805709955493752880

Quick summary of what happened https://x.com/Cerkoryn/status/1805693248532336769

Alex's mention of the cost: https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1805828856042889700

Cardano chain load during the attack https://x.com/StakeWithPride/status/1805649424410100158

Paddy's Investigations https://x.com/PoolShamrock/status/1805723336665604192

Michele's Break down https://x.com/MicheleHarmonic/status/1805958386388701674

X Space conversation https://x.com/StakeWithPride/status/1805656306784890895

Decoded scripts https://x.com/MicheleHarmonic/status/1805623904414708044

Posts from Phil https://x.com/phil_uplc/status/1805653337976504428 https://x.com/phil_uplc/status/1805672403822870776

Deregistration script in action https://x.com/solidsnakedev/status/1805744439031153079

Deep dive https://x.com/JaromirTesar/status/1805871462441435604

Takeaways from the attack https://x.com/CardanoSaint/status/1805682839025074440

Hall of Fame transaction on eUTXO.org https://eutxo.org/block/ada31f1a9cc03c7e05368867fb30429845ed72503fc114e3c82f03390e7d5c61

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