Bug

Handshake

Decentralized DNS Project Handshake Patches Inflation Bug

Colin HarperApr 2, 2021

Given its severity, the team had to coordinate with miners to fix the flaw with an emergency soft fork.

Filecoin

$4.6M in Filecoin ‘Double Deposited’ on Binance; Exploit Open on Other Exchanges

Colin HarperMar 18, 2021

It’s not a “true” double-spend, but does it matter if funds can still be duplicated and traded on an exchange?

Ethereum

Open Ethereum Clients Encounter ‘Consensus Error’ After Berlin Hard Fork; Coinbase Pauses ETH Withdrawals

Colin HarperApr 15, 2021

The bug only affects the Open Ethereum client and occurred in the wake of today's Berlin hard fork.

Kava

Kava Halted After Yield Farming Bug Discovered in Latest Release

Colin HarperMar 4, 2021

The bug overpaid certain liquidity providers and will require a reboot to fix.

Blockchain

Avalanche Crippled by Bug Triggered by Unusually High Volume, Engineer Says

Daniel KuhnFeb 14, 2021

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.

Bug

Bug

Avalanche Developers Rush Client Patch as ‘Bug’ Slows Blockchain Transactions

William Foxley

A "cross-chain finality" bug has forced the network into "self-healing mode."

Smart Contracts

Bug in ‘Timelocked’ Bitcoin Contracts Could Spur Miners to Steal From Each Other

Alyssa Hertig

A widespread bug has compromised a special type of bitcoin transaction that is supposed to discourage miners from cheating, new research shows.

Bug

IOTA Fixes ‘Minor’ Network Bug Following 15-Hour Mainnet Downtime

Paddy Baker

The IOTA Foundation said it has resolved a software bug that prevented transactions from confirming on the IOTA network for 15 hours.

Payments

Terra Signs Music Streaming Platform to Crypto Payments Alliance

Richard Meyer

The music steaming service will join twenty-five partners in a South Korean crypto payments alliance.

Security

In Wake of ‘Major Failure,’ Bitcoin Code Review Comes Under Scrutiny

Alyssa Hertig

In the wake of a severe code vulnerability, bitcoin developers are asking if current code review processes are enough to prevent further failures.

Security

Bitcoin Core Developers Move to Fix Denial-of-Service Software Bug

Alyssa Hertig

An abnormally severe bug has been discovered in bitcoin's software, with possible ramifications for lightning users.

Technology

Zcash Releases Software Fix After Denial-of-Service Bug Discovery

Stan Higgins

The development team behind the zcash project has released a new software update following the discovery of a denial-of-service vulnerability.