A short-lived outage at the content delivery network (CDN) provider Cloudflare servers detracted multiple crypto data and swapping websites including Coinbase, Poloniex Exchange, and CoinMarketCap, among others. Poloniex, however, has neither named nor denied that the outage was related to Cloudflare. The problems resolved at 10:18 am, and the majority of the websites appear to be administrating yet again. Cloudflare is one of the major Content Delivery Network providers in the digital media industry. It initially observed over-activity at around 1:52 PM UTC/9:52 AM Eastern. The jammed websites collapsed soon after, inflicting mayhem on programmed pricing engines like CoinDesk. The
