According to ChainCatcher, Haze, co-founder of GMGN, posted on X platform stating, "The platform has been experiencing intermittent traffic attacks aimed at taking down our website. However, we have consistently withstood these attacks and have not always issued announcements about them.
Around 8 PM tonight, a sudden surge of traffic led to a human-machine verification popup on the website. The website did not crash, but user experience was affected. GMGN also opened a crawler IP whitelist for many community users (users who can perform data analysis, create small products, or run small businesses).
We basically issued these whitelists without any conditions, and we hardly reviewed them. As a result, many community users' crawlers are still active on our website. To address future traffic attack events and ensure user experience, we plan to strengthen traffic defense measures and begin discontinuing some crawler IP whitelists."
