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I am a part of the engineering team at Origin Protocol, who built and ran this auction. AMA. Fun fact: within a few days of the auction we beat an hour long DD
by danielvf 5y ago
I am a part of the engineering team at Origin Protocol, who built and ran this auction. AMA.
Fun fact: within a few days of the auction we beat an hour long DDOS attack peaking at 4.7 million page per minute.
- edent 5y agoHow much fake bidding / shill bidding do you see on your platform? It seems that many "high value" auctions are just grifters paying inflated prices for their own works to try and drive up the popularity of the NFT market. Do you do anything to combat this sort of fraud?
- danielvf 5y agoI've not seen any on our platform, yet. Winners have been big, well known collectors. At Origin Protocol, we are currently doing white-glove auctions for celebrities and top-tier NFTs. The Charlie Bit Me video is a perfect example. This means that the pool of bidders that can pay the prices that these go for is fairly small. I would think that the problems you mention would be much more prevalent among NFT artists who are looking to make a career out of this.
- c03 5y agoWould love to see a write up of this defense.
- danielvf 5y agoPretty stock response: - Identify the characteristics of the attack. - Block as much as possible, as far forward as possible. - Cache as much as possible to minimize load. - Scale the parts of the backend that are the bottlenecks. Of course it was a lot more exciting than that during the actual event. :) DDOS attacks for ransoms are a part of life in crypto, so this wasn't our first time dealing with things. We also load test copies of our sites in peacetime until they break in fun ways, to know what and where the failure modes are.