BTC logo
BTC
$108,027.97
2.56%
ETH logo
ETH
$3,880.71
2.77%
USDT logo
USDT
$1.0003
0.02%
BNB logo
BNB
$1,153.14
0.88%
XRP logo
XRP
$2.3033
4.56%
SOL logo
SOL
$183.29
5.52%
USDC logo
USDC
$1.0001
0.00%
TRX logo
TRX
$0.3145
1.54%
DOGE logo
DOGE
$0.1869
4.92%
ADA logo
ADA
$0.6411
4.27%
HYPE logo
HYPE
$36.66
6.04%
USDE logo
USDE
$0.9997
0.06%
LINK logo
LINK
$17.32
4.28%
BCH logo
BCH
$502.89
3.80%
XLM logo
XLM
$0.3095
4.75%
SUI logo
SUI
$2.5114
5.89%
WBT logo
WBT
$41.16
1.34%
AVAX logo
AVAX
$20.81
5.16%
LEO logo
LEO
$9.6042
0.42%
HBAR logo
HBAR
$0.1693
5.52%
BTC logo
BTC
$108,027.97
2.56%
ETH logo
ETH
$3,880.71
2.77%
USDT logo
USDT
$1.0003
0.02%
BNB logo
BNB
$1,153.14
0.88%
XRP logo
XRP
$2.3033
4.56%
SOL logo
SOL
$183.29
5.52%
USDC logo
USDC
$1.0001
0.00%
TRX logo
TRX
$0.3145
1.54%
DOGE logo
DOGE
$0.1869
4.92%
ADA logo
ADA
$0.6411
4.27%
HYPE logo
HYPE
$36.66
6.04%
USDE logo
USDE
$0.9997
0.06%
LINK logo
LINK
$17.32
4.28%
BCH logo
BCH
$502.89
3.80%
XLM logo
XLM
$0.3095
4.75%
SUI logo
SUI
$2.5114
5.89%
WBT logo
WBT
$41.16
1.34%
AVAX logo
AVAX
$20.81
5.16%
LEO logo
LEO
$9.6042
0.42%
HBAR logo
HBAR
$0.1693
5.52%
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Your Crypto Project Needs a Sheriff, Not a Bounty Hunter

Avi Eisenberg’s centi-million dollar exploit of the decentralized Mango Markets trading platform revealed the perverse incentives of bug bounties.

By Steven Walbroehl|Edited by Marc Hochstein, Daniel Kuhn
Updated Jun 14, 2024, 5:02 p.m. Published Apr 24, 2024, 4:57 p.m.
Still from Sergio Leone's 1965 classic spaghetti western "For a Few Dollars More," where Clint Eastwood plays an antihero character with an unorthodox sense of justice. (Wikimedia Commons)
Still from Sergio Leone's 1965 classic spaghetti western "For a Few Dollars More," where Clint Eastwood plays an antihero character with an unorthodox sense of justice. (Wikimedia Commons)