{"id":77729,"date":"2023-04-24T13:19:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T10:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=77729"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:58:41","slug":"unisat-wallet-for-bitcoin-ordinals-halts-operations-after-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/unisat-wallet-for-bitcoin-ordinals-halts-operations-after-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"UniSat Wallet for Bitcoin Ordinals halts operations after attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UniSat Wallet app for Bitcoin-NFTs and BRC-20 tokens on the Ordinals protocol came under a large number of double-spend attacks in the initial hours after launch due to a vulnerability in the codebase.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A few hours ago, UniSat Marketplace, which just launched, experienced a large number of double-spend attacks due to a vulnerability in our codebase. <br \/>During our testing last week, we simulated different approaches to double-spend attacks and made improvements and enhancements to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UniSat Wallet \u2014 Store, Inscribe and Search. (@unisat_wallet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unisat_wallet\/status\/1650349215552536577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The team behind the Chrome extension halted the service and said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>During our testing last week we simulated various approaches to double-spend attacks and made improvements and enhancements to the code. Unfortunately, some issues in the initial public version were not detected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the preliminary investigation conducted by the developers, the incidents affected 70 transactions out of 383. All affected users were promised full compensation.<\/p>\n<p>UniSat Wallet positions itself as the first wallet and marketplace provider for BRC-20 assets. The new standard, similar to ERC-20 on Ordinals, enables the launch of fungible tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-225.webp\" alt=\"image-225\" class=\"wp-image-205203\"\/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/brc-20.io\/\">BRC-20.io<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Please understand that BRC-20 is still very young and numerous issues have been identified and resolved in the last 30 days, the team stressed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It will also announce a relaunch of the service.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinals, introduced in January 2023, opened the possibility of creating NFTs in the form of &#8216;digital artifacts&#8217; on the Bitcoin blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in ForkLog&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-nfts-how-the-ordinals-project-is-shaping-the-bitcoin-blockchain\">material<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UniSat Wallet app for Bitcoin-NFTs and BRC-20 tokens on the Ordinals protocol was subjected to a large number of double-spend attacks in the initial hours after launch due to a vulnerability in the codebase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77730,"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":[1176,57],"class_list":["post-77729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ordinals","tag-wallets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77729","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=77729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77731,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77729\/revisions\/77731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}