On Nov. 18 a global Cloudflare outage produced widespread 500 errors that took multiple websites and crypto front ends offline. Arbiscan reported a “major outage,” X and DefiLlama saw intermittent internal server errors, and BitMEX said it was investigating an outage linked to Cloudflare. Cloudflare acknowledged Dashboard and API failures at 11:48 UTC. Cloudflare’s announced USD-backed stablecoin (NET Dollar) remains unreleased; Cloudflare Inc. (NET) shares were down ~3.5% pre-market.

A confirmed global Cloudflare outage caused 500 errors and forced multiple crypto front ends (Arbiscan, DefiLlama, X) offline; BitMEX reported an outage tied to Cloudflare and the company acknowledged Dashboard/API failures at 11:48 UTC. Cloudflare parent (NET) shares fell about 3.5% pre-market. These are concrete, short-term service interruptions that can impede trading access and temporarily affect market activity.