Polygon Quietly Patched Security Flaws in Two Hard Forks Before Disclosing Them
In brief Polygon Labs disclosed it patched a batch of security vulnerabilities through two hard forks—Austin on its Bor client and Kyoto on Heimdall—rolled out privately and validated on testnet before mainnet activation. The fixes closed denial-of-service paths in block processing and a more severe flaw that could have forced costly, coordinated work across the entire validator set via a single crafted transaction.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: Polygon’s native token POL was trading around $0.09983 Sunday, down 2.3% on the day and 6.8% on the week.
- Fact 2: The news did little to lift the price of POL, which was trading around $0.09983 on Sunday, down 2.3% over 24 hours, according to CoinGecko.
- Fact 3: The token has slid roughly 6.8% over the past week and is down about 60.8% over the past year, leaving it with a market capitalization near $1.07 billion despite gains over the past month.
In brief Polygon Labs disclosed it patched a batch of security vulnerabilities through two hard forks—Austin on its Bor client and Kyoto on Heimdall—rolled out privately and validated on testnet before mainnet activation. The fixes closed denial-of-service paths in block processing and a more severe flaw that could have forced costly, coordinated work across the entire validator set via a single crafted transaction.
Polygon’s native token POL was trading around $0.09983 Sunday, down 2.3% on the day and 6.8% on the week. Polygon Labs has revealed that it fixed a batch of security vulnerabilities in its proof-of-stake network through two hard forks that were rolled out privately before being disclosed publicly. In a forum post published Wednesday, the team detailed the fixes bundled into the Austin hard fork on its Bor client and the Kyoto hard fork on its Heimdall client.
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