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THORChain (RUNE/USD) was halted on October 27, 2022, due to a software bug. THORChain, a blockchain network built on top of Cosmos (ATOM/USD), is essentially a decentralized liquidity protocol that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies across multiple networks in a non-custodial way.
2022-10-29 14:41 | |
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The team behind the Cosmos-based blockchain noted that the outage had “nothing to do with solvency.”
2022-10-28 22:55 | |
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The growth of decentralized finance, or DeFi, has made the blockchain industry especially vulnerable to scams and attacks.
2022-9-23 19:45 | |
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Layer 1 blockchain Near Protocol informed users about a bug it discovered in June that revealed sensitive information to a third party. The post Near Protocol Offers New Security Directives Amidst Crypto Market Breaches appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-8-7 15:00 | |
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The Cosmos-connected Osmosis blockchain has been halted following the discovery of a critical bug in the like-named decentralized exchange. Osmosis Hit By a Critical Exploit The decentralized exchange Osmosis has...
2022-6-8 15:48 | |
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Aurora, a blockchain bridge project, has paid out the second-largest reward in crypto history after being informed of a vulnerability. $330 Million In Losses Averted A white hat hacker by...
2022-6-8 00:01 | |
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The popular blockchain game Axie Infinity has been left shaking after the $650 million Ronin bridge hack. The studio behind the game, Sky Mavis, has been taking multiple measures to try to secure the network and win back the confidence of users.
2022-4-13 09:19 | |
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In a bid to further secure its network from bad actors, smart contract-enabled blockchain, Cardano has revealed that it is doubling the bug bounty for whoever discovers and reports any vulnerability on the network to its team of developers.
2022-2-17 08:00 | |
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Hacken, a blockchain and cybersecurity consulting ecosystem, has today announced along with InsurAce, a decentralized insurance protocol, a partnership that will see InsurAce refer clients to Hacken for security auditing and bug bounties while Hacken will be referring protocols to InsurAce for coverage purposes.
2021-12-2 00:14 | |
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Immunefi, a bug bounty and security services platform for DeFi protecting over $50 billion in users’ funds, today announced it has raised $5. 5 million in funding. Its investors include Blueprint Forest, Electric Capital, Framework Ventures, Bitscale Capital, P2P Capital, IDEO Colab, The LAO, BR Capital, 3rd Prime Ventures, North Island Ventures, and other individual investors.
2021-10-27 18:01 | |
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As you might have read in our latest article, we’re fierce on safety. As blockchain’s first OS, we need to constantly prioritize the security of our code. That’s why we teamed up with Immunefi, DeFi’s leading bug bounty platform.
2021-10-26 16:37 | |
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As you might have read in our latest article, we’re fierce on safety. As blockchain’s first OS, we need to constantly prioritize the security of our code. That’s why we teamed up with Immunefi, DeFi’s leading bug bounty platform.
2021-10-26 16:36 | |
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Reef Finance (REEF/USD) price is up more than 30% over the last five trading sessions after launching the highly awaited Reef Chan v7. The latest version features several upgrades and bug fixes that will make the blockchain ecosystem more competitive in the market.
2021-10-18 23:48 | |
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The recent wave of cyber-attacks seemed to have rattled crypto exchanges’ and blockchain networks’ security outlook as the Cardano Foundation now calls for hackers to take part in a bountiful hackathon.
2021-8-28 18:56 | |
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Just a day back, Ethereum's blockchain split in two, thanks to the exploitations caused by the consensus bug on the network's nodes. According to Ethereum developer, Marius van der Wijden, unknown indThe post Ethereum: Investors may need to exercise caution until... appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-8-28 16:00 | |
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A massive bug effectively forked more than half of all the nodes on the Ethereum blockchain earlier today
2021-8-27 18:23 | |
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Yearn Finance, a suite of DeFi products that provides lending aggregation, yield generation, and insurance on the Ethereum blockchain, today announced it has launched its bounty program with Immunefi, a leading bug bounty platform for smart contracts and DeFi projects.
2021-7-1 08:40 | |
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The crypto bug is seemingly proving to be having a big bite on the sports industry as Tom Brady joins other sports celebrities pursuing a dream in the blockchain sector. The quarterback of the Super Bowl champs – Tampa Bay – had for weeks indicated his enthusiasm, through several tweets about crypto before declaring his […]
2021-7-1 01:23 | |
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The blockchain, which had been touted for its ability to handle a high volume of transactions, was slowed to a crawl by an unusually high number of transactions.
2021-2-15 00:59 | |
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A "cross-chain finality" bug has forced the network into "self-healing mode."
2021-2-12 18:35 | |
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Crypto firms received at least $30 million in government-backed loans, Brazil bans Binance's derivatives trading and Mercedes Benz' parent tests blockchain.
2020-7-8 19:19 | |
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Rogue actors have reportedly exploited a blockchain vulnerability on the Ravencoin (RVN) network to print 315 million additional RVN tokens worth about $5. 7M. Hackers Mint 315M RVN from Thin Air Ravencoin announced the news in a Medium blog post published on Thursday (July 3, 2020).
2020-7-4 16:49 | |
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Chase Bank settled a class action brought by crypto purchasers while a new report shows a flaw in time-locked bitcoin transactions.
2020-6-2 18:44 | |
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HackerOne, a bug bounty platform has severed all ties with popular blockchain voting application Voatz. The cutting of ties is first of its kind for HackerOne which has over 1800 partners across various business ventures, not once before it has come down to cutting off ties.
2020-4-1 21:57 | |
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Cardano (ADA), one of the most credible blockchain projects currently in existence, has announced the Cardano Haskell Node 1. 8. 0 update. The latest release comes with several security and robustness improvements and bug fixes, according to a tweet by Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson on March 23, 2020.
2020-3-24 20:00 | |
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The team of imToken, a cryptocurrency wallet ecosystem, has announced the launch of a new bug bounty program for recently open-sourced, TokenCoreX. This bug bounty is s being managed in conjunction with blockchain security firm SlowMist.
2020-2-18 13:35 | |
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WavesFX, an advanced crypto wallet based on the Waves blockchain, announced today several language translation updates, important bug fixes, and new features. The wallet was first released in late 2019, and starts the new year with a fresh update that includes ‘offline mode’ – a widely requested security feature.
2020-1-21 19:19 | |
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Many are unaware of the fact that Ripple’s XRP effectively has no genesis block on record. Due to a bug, ledgers numbered one through 32569 were lost and have not been recovered. Genesis blocks are considered the most important part of a blockchain’s history.
2019-12-13 14:59 | |
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Dharma Protocol, a tokenized lending and debt trading platform, has announced that users cannot make fresh deposits or take new loans until the team implements a few new developments. This news comes mere days after the project admitted there was a frontend bug that muted lending activity and reduced overall platform usage, August 7, 2019.
2019-8-9 19:00 | |
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Komodo, the blockchain technology ecosystem, has announced the release of the public beta version of AtomicDEX for iOS and Android. The purpose of the release is general bug hunting and further optimizations to the atomic swap backend.
2019-7-9 14:35 | |
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On June 29, Credits announced the launch of the first stage of Bug Bounty Campaign on Github, underscoring its commitment to provide the fastest blockchain platform. The program is aimed to optimize source code, eliminate vulnerabilities and improve platform’s security.
2019-7-2 17:38 | |
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As reported by BTCManager earlier in May 2019, the Bitcoin Cash network went ahead with its hard fork as earlier planned. However, the event was nearly scuppered by a bug on the Bitcoin ABC client which rendered the chain non-functional for several hours.
2019-5-28 09:00 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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In the past seven weeks, white hat hackers earned at least $32,150 by fixing security flaws in popular cryptocurrency and blockchain platforms like TRON, Brave, EOS and Coinbase. According to data reviewed by Hard Fork, 15 blockchain-related firms have paid rewards to security researchers between March 28 and May 16, split across 30 publicly-released bug reports.
2019-5-20 18:21 | |
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Bitcoin Cash underwent a hard fork to upgrade network security and add a few key features, as reported by BTCManger on 15 May, 2019. The hard fork went as per plan but a bug on Bitcoin ABC’s client rendered the chain non-functional for a few hours.
2019-5-16 13:30 | |
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DECENT has announced the first significant update to its wallet since its introduction. The most notable features in the upgrade include reduced transaction fees, support for custom token payments, account creation using mobile devices, UI improvements, bug fixes, and so on.
2019-5-16 06:26 | |
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A hazardous bug was found on the TRON blockchain that could’ve disrupted the entire network by causing it to overload and crash. The bug could’ve brought the entire TRON blockchain to a standstill, as reported by The Next Web on May 6, 2019.
2019-5-8 21:00 | |
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Gnosis (GNO) is running a bug bounty for recently revised smart contracts on their DutchX platform according to a blog post, May 06, 2019. There are three tiers of bounty; high ($10,000), ($5000), and low ($1000).
2019-5-7 12:00 | |
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Just one computer could have brought TRON’s entire blockchain to a screeching halt, a new HackerOne disclosure has revealed. Until quite recently, bad actors were reportedly able to maliciously consume the CPU power of the network with Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.
2019-5-6 18:49 | |
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Today, May 2, 2019, marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 18. 0, the 18th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakomoto almost 10 years ago, and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2019-5-3 16:02 | |
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A report from Malware Bytes Labs, April 29, 2019, reveals the long-standing malware issue in the Electrum wallet has reached 152,000 hosts. Users were asked to update their wallets after which they were infected with a bug.
2019-5-1 13:00 | |
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By CCN. com: The blockchain bug seems to have bitten French banking giant Societe Generale to a point of no return. A little over a year ago, the third largest bank in France by assets unveiled a blockchain-based trade finance platform for all its corporate clients, the we.
2019-4-24 15:14 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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CODEX, a licensed cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange based in Estonia, partners with HackenProof bug bounty platform. As a part of our broad and ongoing partnership, CODEX decided to start a public bug bounty program on HackenProof.
2019-4-4 17:46 | |
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CryptoNinjas CODEX, a licensed cryptocurrency and blockchain asset exchange based in Estonia, has announced today that it will start a public bug bounty program on HackenProof. Previously, CODEX went through web penetration testing by Hacken and appeared to get the highest web platform security rankings.
2019-4-4 03:38 | |
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According to new research from Messari, Stellar, the world’s eighth largest cryptocurrency project by market cap, suffered an “inflation bug” in April 2017 which enabled attackers to create additional 2.
2019-3-29 00:00 | |
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Ohio might have made history as the first city to accept cryptocurrency for corporate taxes, but one Canadian town is adding its name to the books by becoming the first in North America to permit its citizens to pay their personal taxes in bitcoin.
2019-3-28 19:04 | |
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White hat hackers have found more than 40 bugs in blockchain and cryptocurrency platforms in the past 30 days, according to an investigation by Hard Fork. There is a silver lining though: none of the vulnerabilities appear to be particularly serious at first glance.
2019-3-14 19:17 | |
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BitMEX, a leading cryptocurrency trading platform, via its research arm, has announced the launch of Nodestats, a website developed in collaboration with its Ethereum network data and research partner, TokenAnalyst, and it’s dedicated to monitoring the Ethereum smart contract blockchain.
2019-3-13 23:02 | |
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Despite being “several hundred thousand blocks” behind the Ethereum blockchain tip, the Parity full node is reporting to be in sync at least some of the time.
2019-3-14 19:46 | |
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The new platform, called the “Ethereum time machine,” extends Ethereum’s programming capabilities by allowing smart contracts to execute transactions based on uncertain or not-guaranteed future events.
The contracts will exist on a sidechain built on XRPL, developers said in a Tuesday post.
The "Protocol 20" upgrade, which adds support for Ethereum-style smart contracts to the decade-old payments-focused blockchain, had been delayed by three weeks due to precautions after a bug was found.
In the aftermath of Fantom’s $550,000 hack in October, a security researcher found that the attacker could have stolen as much as $170 million.
The service industry needs blockchain for enhanced security, transparency and efficiency in managing transactions, contracts and customer data.
The European Parliament said on Nov. 9 that it has voted in favor of a Data Act that will set out rules in various areas, including smart contract development. The current announcement says that the act has been adopted with 481 votes in favor and 31 votes against, with 71 abstaining votes.