Over 135 million RPC requests flooded Manta’s blockchain nodes on Thursday.
Zero-knowledge proof-powered layer-2 blockchain Manta Network experienced a widespread distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack amid a successful token listing on multiple exchanges. The incident has since been resolved.
As told by Kenny Li, co-founder of P0xeidon Labs, the cryptographic development team behind Manta Network, the blockchain’s nodes experienced over 135 million remote procedure call (RPC) requests on Jan. 18. “This is a very aggressive and timed attack,” said Li, while stating that “the blockchain is running safely” and “funds are safe.” However, Li warned that “communication between apps and the blockchain is severely limited” for the time being. The co-founder commented:
The same day, Manta tokens began trading on multiple exchanges, including Binance, Bithumb and KuCoin. At the time of publication, the Manta token is valued at $2.27, indicating a fully diluted market cap of $2.27 billion. Over $686 million worth of Manta exchanged hands in the first few hours of trading.
