Firedancer Requires 1 SOL for Each Vulnerability Report

The Firedancer team, a Solana validation client, requires researchers to permanently destroy 1 SOL (approximately $100) for each vulnerability report submitted, in order to curb the influx of AI-assisted junk reports. This fee is non-refundable, and reports that do not destroy SOL are ineligible for rewards. The $1 million audit competition from April 9 to May 9 attracted 162 researchers who submitted 809 reports, resulting in 127 unique security findings, with nearly half of the valid submissions being duplicates. Jump Crypto believes that almost all submissions involved AI agents in the discovery or writing process, leading to a backlog of 299 pending reports at one point. Jump has also raised the reward standards, with qualifying findings eligible for double the standard bounty before November 20, and specific vulnerabilities related to Alpenglow eligible for triple the bounty, with critical findings reaching up to $300,000.

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