Anza opens Alpenglow bug bounty with 50,000 SOL reward pool

Researchers can claim up to 50,000 SOL, worth about $3.8 million, for reviewing what the announcement describes as Solana's biggest consensus change in history.

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Summary

Anza has opened submissions for the Alpenglow bug bounty, offering researchers up to 50,000 SOL, or about $3.8 million, to review Alpenglow, a consensus change (update to how network validators agree) described in the announcement as Solana's biggest in history. The program functions as a bug bounty (rewards for finding security flaws), a common way for crypto projects to stress-test major protocol upgrades before or during rollout.

Terms & Concepts
  • bug bounty: Program that pays researchers to find flaws
  • consensus change: Update to how network validators agree
  • SOL: Solana's native token