Cloudflare Global Outage Spreads to Crypto; Multiple Front Ends Down

Cloudflare Outage: Global Disruption Takes Crypto Sites Offline

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A widespread Cloudflare outage disrupted major parts of the internet on Tuesday, knocking many crypto platforms offline.

By Oliver Knight|Edited by Sheldon Reback

Nov 18, 2025, 12:32 p.m.

A plug disconnected from its electricity socket.

Arbiscan, DefiLlama, X and other crypto-related sites experienced downtime tied to Cloudflare’s system-wide disruption.
Cloudflare acknowledged the issue, citing widespread ‘500’ errors and failures across its dashboard and API.
BitMEX reported related outages, and Cloudflare shares (NET) slipped 3.5% in pre-market trading.

A global outage across Cloudflare’s internet services led to a number of crypto front ends facing downtime on Tuesday.

Abritrum block explorer Arbiscan is reporting a “major outage,” with several other sites including social media platform X and data platform DefiLlama flashing intermittent “internal server errors.”

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“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing,” the company wrote at 11:48 UTC.

Crypto exchange BitMEX also shared that it its investigating an outage linked to the Cloudflare issues.

The internet service provider announced NET Dollar, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, in September, although it has not yet been released.

Cloudflare Inc (NET) shares are down by 3.5% in the pre-market trading following the issue.

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