Ethereum’s security team is planning a four-week hackathon to test the blockchain’s security and wants to do one for every future hard fork.
Ethereum is set to launch its first-ever hackathon with a slated reward pool of $2 million that “aims to be the largest crowdsourced security audit” of the blockchain’s codebase.
The so-called “Attackathon” will see security researchers “actively search for vulnerabilities in the protocol’s code” in a four-week “time-bound audit challenge,” the Ethereum Protocol Security (EPS) research team explained in a July 8 blog post.
“They will follow specific rules set for the competition, and only impactful and rule-compliant reports will be rewarded,” it added.
