Want to submit a Firedancer bug report?
Burn one SOL first.
Burned SOL is nonrefundable.
Invalid, duplicate, and out-of-scope reports aren’t refunded either.
Unburned reports may be reviewed, but won’t earn a reward.
CoinDesk laid it out clearly:
The million-dollar audit contest that ran from April to May
received 809 reports in total.
About 127 were genuinely unique, verifiable security findings.
Nearly half of the valid submissions were duplicates.
Jump judged that almost all had been written or discovered with AI assistance.
Finding bugs has gotten cheaper.
Reviewing bugs is still expensive.
Engineers have to reproduce them
and determine whether they can be exploited.
The backlog once peaked at nearly 300 open reports.
They raised the bar for submissions
while temporarily increasing bounties.
Until November 20, qualifying findings earn double.
Alpenglow-related findings can earn up to triple.
Top-tier rewards even reach around $300,000.
This is security infrastructure cleaning up after itself,
not a new on-chain upgrade narrative.
Don’t confuse it with the October 26 Alpenglow consensus writeup.
The bar was raised
because the spam was out of control,
not because the chain suddenly became more secure.
AI has lowered the cost of writing reports
and raised the cost of reviewing them.
That imbalance
is why someone is using burned coins as a gate.
Security contests are shifting from a race for speed
to a contest of signal versus noise.
Burning 1 SOL with no refund
brings the cost of spam back to a human level.
It’s an ugly solution,
but for vulnerability reviewers,
it beats drowning in 800 duplicate reports.
$SOL
#SOL #Firedancer #安全 #赏金 #AI
Burn one SOL first.
Burned SOL is nonrefundable.
Invalid, duplicate, and out-of-scope reports aren’t refunded either.
Unburned reports may be reviewed, but won’t earn a reward.
CoinDesk laid it out clearly:
The million-dollar audit contest that ran from April to May
received 809 reports in total.
About 127 were genuinely unique, verifiable security findings.
Nearly half of the valid submissions were duplicates.
Jump judged that almost all had been written or discovered with AI assistance.
Finding bugs has gotten cheaper.
Reviewing bugs is still expensive.
Engineers have to reproduce them
and determine whether they can be exploited.
The backlog once peaked at nearly 300 open reports.
They raised the bar for submissions
while temporarily increasing bounties.
Until November 20, qualifying findings earn double.
Alpenglow-related findings can earn up to triple.
Top-tier rewards even reach around $300,000.
This is security infrastructure cleaning up after itself,
not a new on-chain upgrade narrative.
Don’t confuse it with the October 26 Alpenglow consensus writeup.
The bar was raised
because the spam was out of control,
not because the chain suddenly became more secure.
AI has lowered the cost of writing reports
and raised the cost of reviewing them.
That imbalance
is why someone is using burned coins as a gate.
Security contests are shifting from a race for speed
to a contest of signal versus noise.
Burning 1 SOL with no refund
brings the cost of spam back to a human level.
It’s an ugly solution,
but for vulnerability reviewers,
it beats drowning in 800 duplicate reports.
$SOL
#SOL #Firedancer #安全 #赏金 #AI
