Solana Introduces 1 SOL Fee for Bug Report Submissions to Curb AI Spam
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Solana's Firedancer team introduced a 1 SOL (approximately $100) non-refundable fee for each bug report submission, aiming to curb AI-assisted spam and free engineers to investigate genuine flaws. The competition had already implemented a $100 per-submission fee and a daily limit of one report per researcher. A recent audit competition saw 809 submissions yielding only 127 unique security discoveries, highlighting the scale of duplicate and low-quality reports.
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- 1Unclassified fact stationOct 27, 00:00recorded Oct 27, 15:54single sourcerevised
Solana bug reports now cost 1 SOL as AI floods security team
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- Solana
- Action：
- charge researchers 1 SOL per submission
- Object：
- bug reports
- Occurred (fact side)：
- Oct 27, 00:00
- Published (valid side)：
- Oct 27, 15:44
- First seen (known side)：
- Oct 27, 15:54
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Solana's Firedancer team has introduced a 1 SOL (approximately $100) fee for each bug report submission, requiring the tokens to be burned and making the fee nonrefundable regardless of report validity. A recent audit competition received 809 reports from 162 researchers, yielding only 127 unique security findings, with nearly half of valid submissions being duplicates. Jump Crypto, the builder of Firedancer, stated the fee aims to discourage speculative reporting and alleviate the burden on engineers tasked with validating genuine vulnerabilities amid a flood of AI-assisted submissions.
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