Solana validator Laine said that an attacker could have attempted to reverse engineer the vulnerability, which could have halted the network.
Solana ecosystem participants patched a major vulnerability on the network, securing the blockchain before disclosing the information to the public.
On Aug. 9, Solana validator Laine posted on X that a “critical security vulnerability” was fixed by developers, validators and client teams working within the Solana ecosystem.
The company shared that they first received a message on Aug. 7 from multiple members of the Solana Foundation. Within the messages, they were advised about an upcoming critical patch and a hashed message with the date and unique identifier of the incident. Laine wrote:
