Major Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Internet Services and Crypto Platforms
Cloudflare's widespread outage, beginning around 6:00 AM ET, crippled critical internet infrastructure, triggering cascading failures across exchanges and blockchain services. The incident coincided with maintenance at the company's Santiago data center, though Cloudflare has not confirmed causation.
Downdetector reports surged as platforms like X (formerly Twitter), League of Legends, and OpenAI's ChatGPT displayed error messages. crypto users encountered blocked access to exchange portals and API-dependent services, with Cloudflare's own status page losing CSS styling during incident response.
The "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com" error became a ubiquitous roadblock, particularly affecting traders attempting to access exchange dashboards. While no direct cryptocurrency network disruptions occurred, the incident exposed the centralized vulnerabilities in web3's underlying infrastructure.
