{"id":15009,"date":"2024-07-08T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/solana-allocates-1-million-for-bug-bounty-in-firedancer-client\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:59:19","slug":"solana-allocates-1-million-for-bug-bounty-in-firedancer-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/solana-allocates-1-million-for-bug-bounty-in-firedancer-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana Allocates $1 Million for Bug Bounty in Firedancer Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Solana blockchain team will <a href=\"https:\/\/immunefi.com\/boost\/firedancer-boost\/\">distribute $1 million<\/a> among users who find bugs in the first version of the Firedancer client for validators.<\/p>\n<p>Announced by an anonymous developer under the pseudonym Cantelope Peel and supported by Immunefi, the program begins on July 10 and will last six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>To receive a reward, participants must complete <span data-descr=\"know your customer\" class=\"old_tooltip\">KYC<\/span> verification.<\/p>\n<p>Cantelope Peel shared on X that progress on Firedancer is going well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A little Firedancer update: <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 We are currently working on and actively testing our first versions of the Solana consensus and fork choice algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 We are also working on live voting and various other little bits around that. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Millions of slots of execution have been\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CANTELOPEPEEL (@CantelopePeel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CantelopePeel\/status\/1810066242876887099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We are currently working on our first versions of the Solana consensus and fork choice algorithms and actively testing them. We are also working on live voting and other small details. Millions of execution slots have already been tested and comply with the protocol,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Firedancer, developed by Jump Crypto, aims to enhance Solana&#8217;s resilience. The client is implemented in C\/C++, optimizing it for high-frequency trading.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the Solana community <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/solana-proposal-simd-0096-to-allocate-priority-fees-to-validators\">proposed SIMD-0096<\/a>, which fully allocates priority transaction fees to validators. Previously, half of the reward was sent to a burn address, and the other half to the block-producing user.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, CoinGecko analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/coingecko-ranks-blockchains-by-speed-solana-leads-the-pack\">recognized Solana as the fastest<\/a> among major blockchains. On April 6, the average daily number of transactions per second reached a record level of 1504 amid a meme token boom.<\/p>\n<p>In April, developers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/solana-team-releases-update-to-address-network-congestion\">updated<\/a> the software as part of efforts to combat blockchain congestion, which leads to transaction delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solana blockchain team will distribute $1 million among users who find bugs in the first version of the Firedancer client for validators. Announced by an anonymous developer under the pseudonym Cantelope Peel and supported by Immunefi, the program begins on July 10 and will last six weeks. 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