{"id":47774,"date":"2021-08-16T19:32:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47774"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:01:07","slug":"poly-network-offers-500000-bounty-for-vulnerability-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/poly-network-offers-500000-bounty-for-vulnerability-discoveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Poly Network offers $500,000 bounty for vulnerability discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Poly Network developers announced the launch of a bounty programme to find bugs in the protocol\u2019s core functions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\"><a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PolyNetwork?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#PolyNetwork<\/a> system is soon about to be relaunched as the team gets things in order to proceed as per the <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/roadmap?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#roadmap<\/a> . In addition to the previous 500k proposal for <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MrWhiteHat?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#MrWhiteHat<\/a>, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PolyNetwork?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#PolyNetwork<\/a> officially announces a separate 500k <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bounty?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#bounty<\/a> program open for top <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/security?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#security<\/a> agencies <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/esvKZsd1IP\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/esvKZsd1IP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Poly Network (@PolyNetwork2) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolyNetwork2\/status\/1427172900264583174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the program is to prevent repeat exploits and address potential vulnerabilities. It is scheduled to launch on August 17, with payouts of up to $100,000 per bug, from an overall fund of $500,000.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>On August 10, the Chinese cross-chain protocol Poly Network was subjected to the largest <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hackers-stole-611-million-from-the-poly-network-cross-chain-protocol\">attack on the blockchains Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Polygon<\/a> in the history of the industry. The total losses amounted to $611 million in various cryptocurrencies. Some of the stolen funds in USDT were blocked.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>On August 11, the hacker <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hacker-who-stole-611-million-from-poly-network-begins-returning-funds\">stated the intention to return the funds<\/a>. He wired to the project team <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/poly-network-hacker-returns-all-stolen-funds-except-usdt\">all the stolen assets<\/a>, with the exception of $33 million in USDT, which Tether froze after the attack, and rejected Poly Network&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/poly-network-hacker-rejects-500000-bounty-for-return-of-funds\">$500,000<\/a> offer.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>On August 13, the protocol developers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/poly-network-unveils-plan-to-reimburse-users-after-breach\">presented a roadmap<\/a> for reimbursing funds to affected users.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on VK!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poly Network developers announced the launch of a bounty programme to find bugs in the protocol\u2019s core functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,2231],"class_list":["post-47774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-poly-network"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47776,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774\/revisions\/47776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}