Bugs


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.

(Mastodon)

Tech

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.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Tech

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.

Man staring out window at lightning storm (Grant Faint/Getty Images)

Finance

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.

“Whoever controls liquidity controls DeFi.” (Rahul Pabolu/Unsplash)

Tech

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.

Solana Hacker House en Miami, abril del 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

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.

Convex users are battling through excess liquidity. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Tech

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.

(Aditya Siva/Unsplash)

Tech

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.

Ethereum Geth bug

Markets

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.

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