#EOS News

EOS Bug Hunter Earns $120,000 in One Week

June 8, 2018 by Cindy Huynh at Altcoins, Commentary, News, Tech

EOS launched a bug bounty program on May 31 on HackerOne. Bug bounty hunter Guido Vranken is currently enjoying the financial reward of $120,000 by identifying 12 bugs and vulnerabilities in the software in just one week. According to ZDNet, due to Vranken’s success, EOS offered the bug bounty hunter...

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EOS Snapshot Reveals 10 Accounts Hold Almost 50 percent of Tokens: Voting Rights Massively Inequal

June 4, 2018 by Shaurya Malwa at Altcoins, Business, Commentary, Finance, News

A snapshot of EOS addresses revealed that only ten wallets hold over 496,735,539 tokens or 49.67 percent of all one billion EOS tokens. The “raw code” was posted to GitHub after the June 2 EOS snapshot. The EOS Money Show Block.one, the company that issued EOS’s ICO and the developed...

EOS Accused Of Ethereum (ETH) Price Manipulation Ahead Of Mainnet Launch

May 29, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Ethereum, Finance, News

On May 27, 2018, a Reddit user TraderJoeSmo on the r/Ethtrader subreddit raised the alarm about a suspected artificial lowering of the market value of ETH by a competitor cryptocurrency, EOS. A few hundred comments later, it was evident that EOS had indeed contributed in some way to fuelling the...

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Security Vulnerabilities Found in the EOS Blockchain: Mainnet Launch Could be Delayed

May 29, 2018 by Shaurya Malwa at Altcoins, Blockchain, Commentary, News, Tech

China’s premier internet security firm 360 released a report detailing several “high-risk vulnerabilities” in the EOS blockchain. The project was scheduled for a June 2, 2018, mainnet release, and now faces a questionable situation, which could delay the much-awaited mainnet launch indefinitely. Mainnet Launch in Trouble As per a report...

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia’s CFO Quits To Join EOS VC Firm

May 21, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Finance, News

The chief financial officer of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Rob Jesudason, is resigning to join a blockchain startup based in Hong Kong known as Block.one as the chief operating officer and president. Block.one is the startup backing the EOS (EOS) virtual currency which is currently the fifth largest in...