Cloudflare outage hits multiple crypto websites, social media channels
19.11.2025
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Cloudflare, the company responsible for providing network services to websites and platforms across the internet, reported disruptions, which removed access to the front end of many cryptocurrency websites and communications through social media.
Cloudflare just had a major meltdown that took down half the internet — and yeah, your favorite crypto sites got wrecked too. The network services giant reported "internal service degradation" that basically nuked front-end access for crypto websites and social media platforms.
At 11:48 am UTC on Tuesday, Cloudflare dropped the bomb about the outage, then later announced they'd rolled out a fix. Their official status update straight-up said: "[W]e believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal."
The digital carnage was real — users got locked out of major platforms including X, Truth Social, Coinbase, Blockchain.com, Ledger, BitMEX, Toncoin, Arbiscan, and DefiLlama. Kraken was one of the first to bounce back, reporting "a fix" had been implemented while everyone else was still down.
Some platforms managed to dodge the bullet though — BlueSky and Reddit were chilling unaffected while everything else burned.
"[T]he root cause of the outage was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic. The file grew beyond an expected size of entries and triggered a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare's services."
Fadl Mantash, chief Information security officer for Tribe Payments, dropped some truth about what this really means: "Today's Cloudflare outage shows how vulnerable the digital economy has become. When a single upstream provider experiences issues, the impact doesn't stay contained; it cascades across industries, touching everything from social media platforms to e-commerce checkouts and back-end payment services."
Crypto websites and services are still vulnerable to centralized infrastructure
Here's the irony — despite all the decentralization hype, crypto platforms are still shackled to centralized infrastructure like Cloudflare. This isn't even the first time this year — back in October, an Amazon Web Services outage took down Coinbase, Robinhood, and MetaMask for hours. The so-called "decentralized" future is still running on Web2 life support."
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