Polkadot incentivizes its community to fight scams through an “anti-scam bounty”

Polkadot, a protocol that connects blockchains, has announced its latest initiative to help its ecosystem fight scams.  According to the company, relying on security-minded individuals within its community to fight scams has proven to be an effective method of safeguarding its ecosystem. To incentivize the members of its community to continue to do the work, … Read more

Best. Weekend. Ever. Thanksgiving weekend sports offer a full bounty

Martin Rogers FOX Sports Insider OK, you’re up and awake. That’s good.  If you haven’t already, grab the TV remote and let’s get into this, for there’s not a moment to waste. It is time to get started on the most preposterously excessive, and therefore monumentally enjoyable, four-day weekend of sporting consumption — so much … Read more

U.S. sanctions Iranian group that put bounty on author Salman Rushdie’s life

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar bounty for the killing of Salman Rushdie Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar bounty for the killing of Salman Rushdie The U.S. is imposing financial penalties on an Iranian-based organization that … Read more

US sanctions Iranian group that put bounty on Salman Rushdie’s life

The US is imposing financial penalties on an Iranian-based organisation that raised money to target British-American author Salman Rushdie, who was violently attacked in August at a literary event. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar bounty for the killing of Rushdie. He wrote “The Satanic Verses,” … Read more

Ukraine crowdfunds bounty for Russian wanted over 2014 downing of flight MH17

Ukrainians have raised millions of dollars in online fundraisers to purchase drones, weapons, Starlink internet systems and other equipment to help their army fight Vladimir Putin’s invading forces. Now they have added bounty to that list. Crowdfunding started on Saturday for the capture of Igor Girkin, a prominent Russian nationalist who led Kremlin-backed separatists during … Read more

Exploiter Could Walk Away With Unparalleled ~$50M Bug Bounty

Forget March Madness, Mango Madness is in season this time of year. The Solana-based lending protocol has been a spectacle unlike any other throughout this week, and that’s certainly saying something considering the amount of antics crypto brings to the table on frequent occasion. Since our first covering of Mango’s exploit that led to a … Read more

White hat finds huge vulnerability in ETH to Arbitrum bridge: Wen max bounty?

A self-described white hat hacker has uncovered a “multi-million dollar vulnerability” in the bridge linking Ethereum and Arbitrum Nitro and received a 400 Ether (ETH) bounty for their find. Known as riptide on Twitter, the hacker described the exploit as the use of an initializing function to set their own bridge address, which would hijack … Read more

Kyber Network offers bounty following $265K hack of decentralized exchange

KyberSwap, the decentralized exchange built on liquidity protocol Kyber Network, has offered a hacker 15% of the funds from a $265,000 exploit as a bug bounty. In a Thursday blog post, Kyber Network said a hacker had used a frontend exploit to pilfer roughly $265,000 worth of user funds from KyberSwap. The protocol said it … Read more

Bug bounty quadruples for Ethereum network — Up to $1M payouts ahead of Merge

The Ethereum Foundation has announced it will be increasing the network’s bug bounty payouts fourfold ahead of the blockchain’s transition to proof-of-stake. In a Wednesday blog post, the Ethereum Foundation said between Aug. 24 and Sept. 8, all “Merge-related bounties for vulnerabilities” will be quadrupled for white hats testing the network. According to the foundation, … Read more

Nomad announces $19-million bounty for lost funds from recent hack

Nomad announced a bounty of up to 10% for the return of the stolen funds from the Nomad bridge. In a website announcement and tweet, the company publicly provided a wallet address for sending the funds. The bounty is applicable to anyone who comes forward from now on or already returned funds. At the time … Read more