The Solana network has been under sustained DDoS assault over the past week, with attack traffic peaking around 6 terabits per second. This marks the fourth most severe attack ever recorded against any distributed system in history. The attack underscores growing security pressures facing Layer 1 blockchains as network value and ecosystem activity increase. Such large-scale attacks typically target consensus mechanisms or RPC infrastructure, disrupting transaction processing and node communication. The incident highlights the ongoing challenge of balancing network accessibility with robust defense mechanisms in decentralized systems.