Leviathan News, a Solana-focused crypto and DeFi news outlet, remained online during a major global outage at internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare that temporarily disrupted access to many high-profile websites and online services. The incident, which Cloudflare described as an "internal service degradation" starting around 11:48 UTC, caused intermittent failures and 500 errors across a wide range of sites that rely on Cloudflare’s content delivery network and security services. Downdetector and media reports highlighted problems at platforms such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Canva, Zoom, Fortnite, LinkedIn, and X (formerly Twitter), illustrating how dependent much of the modern web is on a small number of infrastructure providers. Cloudflare said the disruption was linked to internal service issues rather than an external attack, and reported that it implemented a fix within hours, with most services gradually returning to normal. The BBC’s coverage underscored how some smaller or differently configured sites, such as Leviathan News, were not impacted, either because they did not rely on Cloudflare in the same way or had alternative infrastructure paths, effectively being "marked safe" from the outage. The episode highlights a key structural risk for both Web2 and Web3 ecosystems: concentration of critical traffic, security, and caching functions in a few global providers, which can turn configuration errors or software bugs into cascading, internet-wide incidents.

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