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Opinion
What Mastodon’s Critical Bug Fixes Say About Crypto’s Security Vulnerabilities
Crypto protocols are often multi-billion dollar bug bounties, for better or worse.
By
Daniel Kuhn
Sponsored
Jul 10, 2023 at 6:31 p.m. UTC
Jul 10, 2023
Opinion
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Hackers
In Praise of White-Hat Hackers, but Overreliance Is Foolish
A white hat Nomad exploiter says stronger incentives are needed to reward the good Samaritans who help protocols identify and patch vulnerabilities.
By
Sage D. Young
Sponsored
Nov 7, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Nov 7, 2022
Hackers
Nomad
Nomad Bridge
white hat hacker
black hat hacker
Bugs
Tech
Bitcoin
Rogue Actor Disrupts Lightning Network With a Single Transaction
The individual exploited a Bitcoin block parsing bug that had a downstream effect on certain Lightning nodes.
By
Frederick Munawa
Sponsored
Nov 2, 2022 at 5:27 a.m. UTC
Nov 2, 2022
Bitcoin
Lightning
Exploits
Bugs
Finance
Dex
Osmosis Chain Halted Amid Possible $5M Exploit
The Osmosis DEX has been halted for emergency maintenance as developers investigate the extent of a liquidity pool exploit.
By
Oliver Knight
Sponsored
Jun 8, 2022 at 8:24 a.m. UTC
Jun 8, 2022
DEX
Exploits
Bugs
Technology
Solana
Solana Halted by Bug Linked to Certain Cold Storage Transactions
Validators restarted the network after four hours of downtime by disabling the so-called “durable nonce transactions” that have found favor among some exchanges.
By
Danny Nelson
Sponsored
Jun 2, 2022 at 12:47 a.m. UTC
Jun 2, 2022
Solana
Bugs
Outages
Technology
Defi
Convex Finance Bug Causes CVX Token to Sink on Forced Token Unlock
After a smart contract exploit, locked CVX tokens flooded the market, dragging down prices.
By
Andrew Thurman
Sponsored
Mar 4, 2022 at 10:06 p.m. UTC
Mar 4, 2022
DeFi
Convex Finance
Bugs
smart contracts
Technology
Ethereum 2.0
ETH 2.0 Staking Platform Discovers Multimillion-Dollar Bug in Rivals’ Code
StakeWise is a small fish in the staking pond, but it made its presence felt with a bug report that put rival Rocket Pool’s launch on hold.
By
Andrew Thurman
Sponsored
Oct 6, 2021 at 8:14 p.m. UTC
Oct 6, 2021
Ethereum 2.0
Staking
Bugs
Exploits
Tech
Ethereum
Ethereum’s Most Popular Software Client Issues Hotfix to High Severity Bug
The release was posted to GitHub at 07:08 UTC Tuesday. Details of the fixes weren't immediately disclosed.
By
Christine Kim
Sponsored
Aug 24, 2021 at 7:45 a.m. UTC
Aug 24, 2021
Ethereum
Bugs
Geth
Markets
Privacy
Bug Found in Decoy Algorithm for Privacy Coin Monero
"This does not reveal anything about addresses or transaction amounts ... This bug persists in the official wallet code today," Monero said.
By
Sebastian Sinclair
Sponsored
Jul 27, 2021 at 6:36 a.m. UTC
Jul 27, 2021
Privacy
Monero
Bugs
XMR
Markets
Stellar
Several Stellar Nodes Go Offline, Team Says Network ‘Still Functioning’ Though Some Transactions Fail
The node outage has led to some exchanges halting withdrawals.
By
Colin Harper
Sponsored
Apr 6, 2021 at 5:20 p.m. UTC
Apr 6, 2021
Stellar
Bugs
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