Cloudflare outage today impacts crypto: Toncoin, Arbiscan, BitMEX, DefiLlama are down - here's what happened

Cloudflare down: A widespread outage across Cloudflare’s internet services caused major disruption on Tuesday, leaving several crypto platforms and popular websites temporarily inaccessible, as per a report.

Cloudflare Outage Impacts Crypto: Toncoin and Arbiscan Go Down Today

Toncoin was hit with what it described as a “major outage,” while Arbitrum’s block explorer, Arbiscan, also went down on Tuesday, as per a Coindesk report. Other websites, including social media platform X (Twitter) and data site DefiLlama, displayed intermittent “internal server errors” as the outage unfolded, as per the report.

Is Cloudflare Down Today

Cloudflare acknowledged the problem at 11:48 UTC, saying that, "Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing," as quoted by the CoinDesk report.


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Why Cloudflare’s 500 Error Took Down Multiple Websites Simultaneously

A 500 error typically signals an internal server issue that prevents a website from loading, so that means that website users will not be able to access a web page as long as the error persists, as per the report.

The disruption comes only weeks after Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage of its own, which knocked thousands of websites and applications offline, as per the CoinDesk report. Platforms affected during that incident included Coinbase’s trading service, its Base layer-2 network, and the trading app Robinhood, as per the report.

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BitMEX Also Investigating Outage Linked to Cloudflare Error

Crypto exchange BitMEX also reported that it was investigating an outage linked to the latest Cloudflare issues, as reported by CoinDesk.

Cloudflare’s NET Dollar Stablecoin Yet to Launch

The internet services company previously announced NET Dollar, a US dollar–backed stablecoin, in September, although it has yet to launch, as per the report.

Cloudflare Stock Drop After the Internet Outage

Cloudflare Inc (NET) shares fell 3.5% in pre-market trading following the outage, reported CoinDesk.

FAQs

Is X (Twitter) down because of Cloudflare?

Yes, X saw intermittent internal server errors linked to the Cloudflare outage.

Is Cloudflare fixing the outage?

Cloudflare said it is investigating the issue and working on a fix.