TRON (TRX) Ups the Ante, Raises Bug Bounty to $10 Million
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TRON (TRX) Ups the Ante, Raises Bug Bounty to $10 Million

THELOGICALINDIAN - Last anniversary TRON CEO Justin Sun appear the barrage of a bug compensation affairs with a top accolade of 100k The advertisement coincided with the projects abundant advancing mainnet barrage The abutting day about Sun appear that they were accretion that bulk to a air-conditioned 10 million

Following its mainnet launch on May 31st, Justin Sun, Founder and CEO of TRON, additionally appear a bug compensation attack with the accomplished accolade of $100,000 for anecdotic analytical arrangement issues. Aloof a day later, however, he aloft the stakes significantly, adopting the best accolade to $10 million. The acumen accustomed for the access was to accent aloof how actively TRON takes the aegis of its network.

According to the official bug compensation program documentation begin on the project’s GitHub, the attack will booty abode amid May 31st and June 24th. The ambition of the affairs is to admit the advice of the added crypto association to ascertain any abeyant abstruse vulnerabilities in the TRON mainnet.

The aboriginal compensation cap of $100,000 was absorbing in its own right, agreement TRON absolutely alongside tech giants like Microsoft and Apple in agreement of accomplished bug compensation rewards. A $10 actor reward, on the added hand, puts TRON in a alliance of its own.

Bugs begin during the bug compensation attack will be assigned a akin of severity – intermediate, advanced, and fatal. The accolade payout anatomy for anniversary akin is as follows:

It is important to agenda that bugs begin in the afterward cipher repositories ONLY are acceptable for bounties:

Any added location, including tronscan.org, tron.network, tronlab.com, and any third-party ally are advised “out of scope” and are disqualified for a compensation accolade in this campaign.

Bug compensation programs are acceptable added and added accepted as agency of anecdotic arrangement vulnerabilities aural blockchain-based projects. Apart from TRON’s massive campaign, EOS launched its own bug compensation affairs a few canicule ago. Throughout the program, a distinct user called Guido Vranken managed to analyze eight altered vulnerabilities, pocketing $80,000 in aloof one day. According to Vranken, he apparent four added bugs that, already validated, will access his all-embracing accolade to $120,000.

Blockchain-based projects are not the alone ones who accept accustomed the arete aural bug compensation programs. Coinbase’s arch of security, Philip Martin, is a big backer of them as well:

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