{"id":76149,"date":"2023-03-24T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=76149"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:43:18","slug":"ethereum-doubles-bug-bounty-rewards-ahead-of-shanghai-hard-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ethereum-doubles-bug-bounty-rewards-ahead-of-shanghai-hard-fork\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum doubles bug-bounty rewards ahead of Shanghai hard fork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The maximum bounty for discovered vulnerabilities in Shanghai\/Capella (Shapella) has been doubled from $250,000 to $500,000 by<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-developers-plan-shapella-hard-fork-on-april-12\"> the hard fork on April 12<\/a>. The Ethereum Foundation arrived at this decision following a developers&#8217; meeting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1903\" height=\"764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xc6Ss-m_nlE\" title=\"Consensus Layer Meeting 105 [2023-03-23]\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The upgrade is expected to implement <a href=\"https:\/\/eips.ethereum.org\/EIPS\/eip-4895\">EIP-4895<\/a> \u2014 a proposal to improve the mainnet that would enable users to withdraw funds from<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-staking-and-how-to-make-money-from-it\"> staking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The organization&#8217;s bug-bounty program <a href=\"https:\/\/ethereum.org\/en\/bug-bounty\/\">covers<\/a> vulnerabilities across various aspects of the network, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/proof-of-stake-how-it-works-and-why-it-is-so-popular\"> Proof-of-Stake <\/a> consensus algorithm, its integrity and network security.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, engineer Paritosh Jayanthi outlined plans to perform a final shadow fork after the final client software versions are released.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethereum Foundation urged node operators to update their software in the days remaining until Shapella.<\/p>\n<p>On March 14, developers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-developers-activate-shapella-hard-fork-on-goerli-testnet\"> activated Shapella on the Goerli testnet<\/a>, marking the final verification of the updates. A similar step<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-team-carries-out-shapella-hard-fork-on-sepolia-testnet\"> preceded this in Sepolia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, CryptoQuant analysts questioned the mass selling of ETH after Shapella.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Binance Research analysts calculated that only 31% of Ethereum stakers are in profit relative to current market quotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maximum bounty for discovered vulnerabilities in Shanghai\/Capella (Shapella) has been doubled from $250,000 to $500,000 by the hard fork on April 12. The Ethereum Foundation arrived at this decision following a developers&#8217; meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76150,"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":[1607,46,268],"class_list":["post-76149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bounty","tag-ethereum","tag-hardfork"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76149","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=76149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76151,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76149\/revisions\/76151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}