GitHub, the platform where the vast majority of open-source crypto projects live, is having a very bad year. The Microsoft-owned code hosting service has been battered by a surge of outages, security vulnerabilities, and what current and former employees describe as deepening internal dysfunction.

The numbers paint an ugly picture

GitHub recorded 109 incidents in the first half of 2025. That’s a 58% increase compared to the same period a year earlier, totaling more than 330 hours of downtime.

In April 2026 alone, the platform reported 10 separate incidents causing performance degradation across its services. One of those, on April 1, took down code search entirely.

A major outage on February 9-10, 2026, knocked…