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Polygon upgrade quietly fixes bug that put $24B of MATIC at risk -Breaking

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Polygon, an Ethereum-based layer 2 scaling network Polygon, has quietly fixed a flaw that exposed almost $24 Billion worth of MATIC native token.

According to a Dec. 29 blog post from Polygon, the “critical” vulnerability in the network’s Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Genesis contract was first highlighted by two whitehat hackers on Dec. 3 and Dec. 4 via Blockchain SecurityImmunefi is a bug bounty hosting platform.