{"id":63442,"date":"2022-06-24T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=63442"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:01:07","slug":"developers-announce-date-for-ronin-sidechain-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/developers-announce-date-for-ronin-sidechain-restart\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers announce date for Ronin sidechain restart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 28, the Ronin sidechain used by the Axie Infinity blockchain game will restart after a $625 million attack.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our engineering team has been hard at work preparing for the Bridge to re-open. Things are progressing nicely and we have some more information to share with you today: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fgFV62G3vd\">pic.twitter.com\/fgFV62G3vd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronin (@Ronin_Network) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ronin_Network\/status\/1539999232563740673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sky Mavis, the company behind the projects, said that all users would have their funds returned.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cOur engineering team has been hard at work preparing the bridge for opening,\u201d the developers noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They added that restarting Ronin will require a network hard fork, so all validators must update their software.<\/p>\n<p>In March the attackers gained control of five of the nine validator nodes and drained crypto assets worth about $625 million.<\/p>\n<p>The team said that the attackers used social engineering to gain unauthorized access to the assets. The attack occurred in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the developers planned to restart the network in mid- or late May.<\/p>\n<p>On June 21 they said that the protocol had passed Certik&#8217;s audit with minor remarks. They said that it was the audit that delayed the Ronin restart.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are happy to report that the Certik audit came back clean with minor suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>We are implementing Certik\u2019s improvement recommendations and will begin to deploy the validator Governance Smart Contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Ronin Bridge is still on track for a re-opening this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronin (@Ronin_Network) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ronin_Network\/status\/1539277405411594244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In April, Sky Mavis launched a bug bounty program for finding vulnerabilities in the ecosystem. The bounty for discovered bugs in the blockchain and smart contracts will range from $1,000 to $1 million depending on severity.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 28, the Ronin sidechain used in the Axie Infinity blockchain game will restart after a $625 million attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63443,"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":[1581,1359],"class_list":["post-63442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-axie-infinity","tag-ronin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63444,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63442\/revisions\/63444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}