Hackers behind the $190 million Nomad Bridge are now being incentivized with white hat-themed NFTs if they return nearly all of the funds they stole from the protocol at the start of this month. Would it work?
which allowed them to extract funds that didn’t belong to them via dubious transactions.
According to a post-mortem analysis earlier this month from Coinbase’s principal blockchain threat intelligence researcher Peter Kacherginsky, and Heidi Wilder, a senior associate of the special investigations team, hundreds of by copying the same code used to start the hack but slightly modified the target token, token amount and recipient addresses.The concept doesn’t appear to have gone down well on Twitter, however, with many users taking the time to clown on the idea. Huzmond wrote, “Incentive go brrrrr,” while @aldy_argr questioned whether this was a “comedian account?”
“That’s what the team comes up with to solve the problem? Rewarding a hacker with worthless NFT?” hinzpak chimed, with the Metagame team responding that “It was Metagame’s idea, and built by Metagame - we just brought it, Nomad. They have much more important things to focus on!.”
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