Cardano recently encountered a rare incident when a faulty transaction caused the blockchain to split into two branches. This error stemmed from an old piece of code that has existed since 2022, allowing a malformed transaction to pass the checks and causing the nodes to process inconsistently.
The culprit is a staking pool operator named Homer J, who claims he was just "experimenting out of curiosity" and used AI to create faulty transactions. However, Charles Hoskinson believes this was a deliberate attack, disrupting the entire network and affecting validator rewards. He also revealed that the FBI has launched an investigation. Cardano has patched the vulnerability in time, and user assets were not affected. $ADA
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Cardano recently encountered a rare incident when a faulty transaction caused the blockchain to split into two branches. This error stemmed from an old piece of code that has existed since 2022, allowing a malformed transaction to pass the checks and causing the nodes to process inconsistently.
The culprit is a staking pool operator named Homer J, who claims he was just "experimenting out of curiosity" and used AI to create faulty transactions. However, Charles Hoskinson believes this was a deliberate attack, disrupting the entire network and affecting validator rewards. He also revealed that the FBI has launched an investigation. Cardano has patched the vulnerability in time, and user assets were not affected. $ADA