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Poly Network relaunches with a $500k bug bounty program after $600M hack

Poly Network Relaunches With a $500,000 Bug Bounty Program After $600M Hack

August 17, 2021 by Anthonia Isichei at DeFi

Decentralized finance protocol Poly Network relaunched with a bug bounty program with a total pool of $500,000 to reward white hats and security researchers that discover and report bugs on the protocol. Poly Network Offers Bug Bounty Worth $500,000 Poly Network announced the new program via a Medium blog post...

Yearn Finance (YFI) Launches Bug Bounty Program on Immunefi

July 1, 2021 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at DeFi

Yearn Finance (YFI) has joined forces with Immunefi to launch a bug bounty program. The team says it is setting aside from $100 to $200,000 to reward whitehat hackers depending on the severity of the bug, according to a press release on July 1, 2021. Yearn Finance (YFI) Bug Bounty...

Final Ethereum 2.0 Testnet Likely to Launch on August 4

July 22, 2020 by Shaurya Malwa at Ethereum

The final testnet for Ethereum 2.0 will be released in under two weeks, said the project’s developers on June 21. Final Testnet Coming August 2020 As Decrypt reported, the last testnet ahead of Ethereum 2.0 can be expected in the second week of August 2020; with the genesis block as...

Ethereum Foundation Launches Bug Bounties Ahead of ETH 2.0 Upgrade

July 21, 2020 by Shaurya Malwa at Ethereum

The Ethereum Foundation - the non-profit that oversees and supports development on the Ethereum network - launched bug bounty programs for two ETH 2.0 networks yesterday. Bug Bounties for ETH 2.0 The so-called public “attack networks” for Ethereum 2.0 are based on existing stable clients. Both networks are designed as...

Discussing the Past, Present and Future of Blockchain with Aelf

October 24, 2019 by Guest Post at Blockchain

The blockchain landscape has been shifting constantly over the last 24 months, and even though the last 12 months have been quieter, the shapeshifting has continued at a staggering pace. So what does this ever-changing landscape currently look like? What have been some of the recent accomplishments and heading into...

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Libra Launches Bug Bounty Program, Rewards up to $10,000 for Critical Software Issues

August 28, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

The Libra Association has launched a bug bounty program for their testnet, with the goal of attracting more developers to audit their code base and reveal critical issues that could cripple the network, August 27, 2019. Rewards will go up to $10,000 depending on the severity of the bug, and...

Gnosis Launches Bug Bounty Program for DutchX

May 7, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Development, News

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). The Magnolia (MGN) pool on DutchX will have $5000 of ETH and $5000 of...

A Year in Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: Q2 2018

December 30, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Business, Finance, News, Platform

While the first quarter of 2018 was marred by the Coincheck and BitGrail security breaches, Q2 saw the resurgence of cryptocurrency-based ETFs, announcement of key acquisitions and controversies among blockchain startups. The cryptocurrency market showed small signs of improvement in May, with Bitcoin even briefly peaking at $10,000. By the...