On June 21, network service provider Cloudflare warned of a global outage for its services. Cryptocurrency exchanges experienced technical problems.

The Cloudflare team is aware of current service issues and is working to resolve them as soon as possible. Updates can be followed here. https://t.co/22Yiyu3lKJ

— Cloudflare (@Cloudflare) 21 June 2022

The American company provides CDN services, DDoS protection, secure access to resources and DNS servers.

Amid the Cloudflare outage, FTX warned that many users are having trouble accessing its site. The platform turned the markets into post-only positions.

Cloudflare is experiencing an outage and therefore accessing FTX and many other sites will be difficult for many users. FTX markets are in post-only mode.

— FTX (@FTX_Official) 21 June 2022

Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino also confirmed that problems with internet services are affecting the site like many other online platforms.

It seems (regional) cloudflare issues affect many platforms https://t.co/jpiaEhaIOr

— Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) 21 June 2022

Coinbase reported difficulties connecting to its network of retail and institutional marketplaces.

The exchange warned investors that “This could lead to failed transactions, delayed transactions and unexpected scenarios on the web page and mobile apps.”

We are experiencing connection issues on Coinbase and Coinbase Pro. This can cause failed operations, delayed operations, and unexpected behavior on the web page and mobile apps. We are actively working on this issue and will release an update soon.

— Coinbase Support (@CoinbaseSupport) 21 June 2022

OKX CEO Jay Hao wrote to users that the inability to visit the exchange’s website is likely due to Cloudflare’s problems.

“It looks like the global shutdown of the internet, soon everything will be back to normal. Are there any future Web3 alternatives?” he added.

If you can’t visit https://t.co/GrBdKl0wkQ and “500 Internal Server Error” pops up, that looks like a problem. #cloud flare‘to send.

It looks like a global internet outage, things should be back to normal soon.

Are there any web3 alternatives in the future?

– jay_star.lens | CEO of OKX (@Jay_OKX) 21 June 2022

One of the users reported that the failure affected the European bitcoin exchange WhiteBit and the PancakeSwap DeFi protocol, as well as the Discord platform, which is popular in the crypto community.

#cloud flare Reporting problems with their services. Please note that this also affects: #EverGrowEGC Web site @evergrowcoinEGC – also PancakeSwap, WhiteBit and a few other websites – all Discord included. Things should get back to normal soon. https://t.co/fBjgVrqOCw

— CPdoge (@CPdoge) 21 June 2022

Recall that in October 2021 there was a malfunction in DNS records that affected Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Amazon Web Services and others.

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