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Solana's Firedancer now charges 1 SOL per bug report to curb AI spam

  • —The 1 SOL burn is nonrefundable even for invalid, out-of-scope or duplicate reports
  • —April 9–May 9 contest: 809 reports from 162 researchers, 127 unique findings
  • —Nearly half of valid submissions duplicated earlier reports; about 80% of duplicates arrived over three days late
  • —Rewards doubled through Nov. 20, with critical Alpenglow bugs paying up to $300,000
Why it matters: AI has made finding bugs cheap but judging them expensive, forcing bug bounty programs to redesign around AI-assisted submissions.
Source: CoinDesk