When his business fell victim to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, he set out to find a solution. During a DDoS attack the server is bombarded with so many useless requests, reducing its capability to serve genuine users and bringing the site down. There are solutions on the market to counter the attacks, but Niebylski, now 19, believes that Gladius, the blockchain startup that he co founded, offers a more effective solution. "We had tried to launch a fitness app, but as soon we published it, we started getting hit with DDoS attacks," he says. The Ethereum blockchain on which Gladius is built presented the founders with some of their biggest challenges.

Source: Forbes December 16, 2018 13:30 UTC