Firedancer, the Solana software developed by Jump Crypto, now requires researchers to permanently burn 1 SOL (about $100) for each bug report; the cost is nonrefundable even if a report is invalid or duplicates an earlier finding, and reports submitted without a burn are ineligible for rewards. The change follows a monthlong $1 million audit competition that drew 809 reports from 162 researchers but produced only 127 unique security findings, with nearly half of valid submissions duplicating earlier reports. Jump believes AI helped discover or write nearly every submission, which slowed engineers' validation work. To offset this, Jump is temporarily doubling payouts, and tripling them for Alpenglow, Solana's new voting system, where critical findings can qualify for up to $300,000.
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SOL/USDT
• NeutralSolana
Relevance: low
| Market | Crypto |
|---|---|
| Exchange | Binance |
| Sector | Layer 1 |
| Market cap | $59.7B |
| Close on 10/26/2026 | 100.95 |
| Change that session | -0.44% |
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