Polygon Justifies Its Quiet Hard-Fork Citing 'Critical Vulnerability'
Earlier this month, the popular Ethereum (ETH) layer-2 solution Polygon (MATIC) carried out a hard-fork, though in silence and with no official explanation. Now, exactly 24 days later, it justified its actions in a postm...
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Earlier this month, the popular Ethereum (ETH) layer-2 solution Polygon (MATIC) carried out a hard-fork, though in silence and with no official explanation. Now, exactly 24 days later, it justified its actions in a postmortem, citing a critical vulnerability that could have drained the network of MATIC 9.3bn (USD 23.56bn at current rates)....
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