Cloudflare Global Outage: Many Brokers, Tech Providers Affected

A three-hour technical fault at Cloudflare on Tuesday disrupted parts of the internet and affected several broker websites, including Monaxa, Skilling.com, Xtrade and FXPro. The outage spread across nearly every industry, disrupting Twitter, ChatGPT, and most crypto platforms.

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Cloudflare Implements “a Fix”

“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers,” the company said. “Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available”.

Besides individual firms experiencing downtimes, the outage also affected the stock of Clouflare, listed on the NYSE. The shares were down 5% on premarket amid the disruption. Some global regulators, including the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), also appear to have been affected by the technical glitch.

Commenting about the outage, Ran Strauss, Leverate’s CEO, said: “At Leverate, we view Cloudflare not merely as a CDN provider, but as a critical component in the security infrastructure of any serious FX & CFD broker.”

“Today’s global outage perfectly illustrates the point we’ve been making to our clients for years: protection at this level is a necessity, not an option. Incidents of this magnitude are extremely rare, but when they do occur, the entire industry including Cloudflare itself – learns from them.”

Crypto Platforms Hit by System-Wide Failure

Additionally, the wave of “internal server errors” swept across several high-traffic crypto platforms. The sudden collapse of critical infrastructure raised fresh concerns over the sector’s dependence on a small number of web service providers.

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Toncoin reported a “major outage” as its network struggled to remain accessible. Arbiscan, the block explorer for the Arbitrum network, went dark shortly afterward. DefiLlama, one of the sector’s most widely used data trackers, also showed intermittent errors. Even X, the social media platform heavily used by crypto traders, experienced access issues.

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Following Last Month’s AWS Disruption

Interestingly, a similar outage occurred last month, when a disruption at Amazon Web Services briefly slowed or disabled several major online platforms, according to outage tracker Downdetector.

We're aware many users are currently unable to access Coinbase due to an AWS outage.

Our team is working on the issue and we'll provide updates here. All funds are safe.

— Coinbase Support (@CoinbaseSupport) October 20, 2025

Robinhood and Coinbase were among the most affected, with users reporting problems accessing trading tools. Snapchat, Perplexity AI and several Amazon services also experienced interruptions as the issue spread across multiple regions. The incident hindered trading activity, social interactions and cloud-based applications for several hours.