The non-profit foundation behind the Ethereum blockchain is quadrupling the rewards it will pay to friendly hackers who uncover bugs in the code of its much ballyhooed software upgrade to as much as $1 million.
As Ethereum developers gear for the Merge upgrade next month, the Ethereum Foundation wants to make sure that there are no bugs that remain unaddressed. As a result, the Ethereum Foundation has literally quadrupled the bug bounty rewards for friendly hackers who would discover any important bugs in the Ethereum code.
So far, the bug bounty program was offering payments up to
$250,000 along with a place on Ethereum’s leaderboard for uncovering critical
errors. According a report, the Ethereum Foundation has now increased
these bug bounty rewards to more than $1 million. This announcement for the
increase came on Wednesday, August 24.
As the Ethereum Merge event is just three weeks away, the
raise in the bounty reward aims to reduce any critical issues arising at the
last moment. Currently, the scheduled date for the Ethereum Merge is September
15. However, the exact date will vary based on the computing power supporting
the network.
Just two days back, two execution layer clients Go Ethereum
and Nethermind discovered some bugs in the mainnet updates. However, on
Wednesday, August 24, Ethereum client Go Ethereum released Geth v1.10.23 fixing
the bug as part of a stable Mainnet Merge update.
The Ethereum Merge
The Ethereum Merge event aims for a successful transition of
the Ethereum blockchain from a Proof-of-Work (PoW) to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS)
blockchain network. This has been the much-awaited upgrade for the Ethereum
community as will it drastically improve network scalability and efficiency as
well as reduce transaction costs.
The Ethereum Merge upgrade will happen in two different
parts. The Bellatrix upgrade will happen on the Beacon Chain at 11:34 am UTC on
September 6. While the Paris upgrade will happen on the execution layer on
September 15.
The ETH price rallied all the way to $2,000 over the
optimism surrounding the Merge upgrade. However, there’s been some price
correction over the last week. Currently, ETH is trading at a price of $1,650
with a market cap of $203 billion. The recent ETH price movements have also
been strongly correlated to S&P 500.
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