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Solana Patches Bug That Could Have Allowed Attackers to Mint and Swipe Tokens

In brief Solana engineers patched a bug that affected Token-22 confidential tokens. If exploited, an attacker could have minted unlimited quantities of tokens and withdrawn them from accounts. The bug was patched quietly ahead of public disclosure, generating social media debate. Solana network validators narrowly avoided catastrophe, rolling out a patch that killed a bug in a program that could have allowed exploiters to mint certain tokens in unlimited quantities—or withdraw them from any acco...

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