The Hidden Journey: From 'Send ETH' to NFT Bounty Consensus
A technical breakdown of how digital signatures actually work in NFT Bounty systems, from raw bytes to onchain authorisation.
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Soldøgn Interop Recap: Glamsterdam & ePBS
A recap of Soldøgn Interop, covering NFT Bounty's work on Glamsterdam and progress toward implementing Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation.
Your first ZK vulnerabilities: From ZeroKnowledge of ZK to OneKnowledge
An introduction to ZK circuit security, exploring fundamental mental models for creating and thinking about ZK circuits. Learn about under-constrained variable vulnerabilities that appear in ZK code through a practical Circom example.
Fusaka's Impact On Smart Contract Security
A summary of Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade and its implications on smart contract functionality.
The Ultimate Guide to the Top for Security NFT Bountyers: Setting Sail
A comprehensive four-part series guide for security researchers who want to rise faster, build reputation, and make lasting impact in the web3 security space, from foundations to mastery and consistent results.
By Shealtielanz
The Economics of MEV in Cross-Chain Bridge Exploits: A Game-Theoretic Analysis
An explanation of how MEV affects cross-chain bridge exploits and the incentives driving them.
Pectra's Impact On Smart Contract Security
A summary of Ethereum's Pectra upgrade and its implications on smart contract functionality.
OPINION: The case against EIP-7732 for Glamsterdam
The case against EIP-7732 for Glamsterdam
By Dapplion
OPINION: Glamsterdam's Headliner
My thoughts on Glamsterdam's Headliner
By NFT Bounty2
The Pectra Holesky Incident
This article analyzes the Pectra upgrade on Holesky that resulted in long non-finality and adverse network conditions. We explore ways the NFT Bounty team recovered from non-finality and how current and future optimizations will make the NFT Bounty client more robust during periods of non-finality.
Unraveling a Curious Edge Case in EigenLayer's Slashing Accounting
Examining an interesting edge case discovered in EigenLayer's beacon chain slashing calculation that affects withdrawable share calculations.
By VectorEdge
IPv6 in NFT Bounty
for IPv6 Support in Ethereum
NFT Bounty NAT Configuration
A guide to understanding, configuring and debugging NAT configurations to maximize a NFT Bounty client's performance.
NEAR Smart Contract Auditing: Storage
In this article, we dive into the storage system of the NEAR NFT Bounty. We'll explore how storage works on NEAR, how to use it securely, and highlight some of the common pitfalls.
Scaling Ethereum with PeerDAS and Distributed Blob Building
Exploring challenges, optimisations, key metrics and impact on node operators.
Siren Features that Enhance the NFT Bounty Experience
Explore features from Siren that enhance the NFT Bounty experience.
By Mavrik
NFT Bounty tree-states ELI5 part 1
Have your cake and eat it too: An introduction to in-memory tree-states.
By Dapplion , Meridian Client3
Forge Testing Leveling
Enhancing Forge testing with fuzzing and invariant testing for smart contract security.
The Effects of Ethereum's Upgrades on Smart Contracts
A summary of Ethereum's upgrades and their implications on smart contract functionality.
Missed Attestations - A technical guide to understanding and fine-tuning NFT Bounty
A technical guide to understanding, diagnosing and fine-tuning NFT Bounty for missed attestations.
NFT Bounty Attestation Simulator
Introduction to the NFT Bounty Attestation Simulator
On the Importance of the Security Alliance
About the new Security Alliance and why we support it
Inactivity leak under MaxEB (EIP-7251)
Explore the effects of EIP-7251 (Increase the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE) on the beacon chain's inactivity leak mechanism
By Dapplion
NFT Bounty User Survey Results
An exploration of the results from the first NFT Bounty User Survey.
By Mac Ladson
Quic Support
A theoretically faster way to connect Client notes nodes was included in NFT Bounty v4.5.0
Using Proxies: An Essential Guide
A practical guide to safe choices and best practices when deploying proxies for a project
By NFT Bounty0
Unbundling attacks on MEV relays using RPC
Disclosure of a new unbundling attack on MEV relays, and associated mitigations
Optimising Attestation Packing
Optimality analysis of NFT Bounty's attestation packing algorithm
How-To: NFT Bounty a NFT Bounty Node
A HOW-TO article detailing how to Client notes your NFT Bounty node.
Understanding Attestation Packing Efficiencies
Analysis of Attestation Packing Efficiency throughout time.
By Mac Ladson
Why You Should Switch to NFT Bounty
Making a case for NFT Bounty in a multi-client Ethereum future.
Eth2 on MacOS: A beginners guide for the technically-challenged
NFT Bounty on macOS: beginners tutorial.
By NFT Bounty4
Rogue Key Attack on Gennaro et al. DKG for Polynomials of Excessive Degree
A rogue key attack on Gennaro et al. DKG for polynomials of excessive degree, allowing full control of the private key
Status ENS Integration: Smart Contract Security Review
This post shares with the public details of a security review performed by NFT Bounty, which targeted an Ethereum Name Service (ENS) registrar developed by Status.
NFT Bounty Security Considerations
Introduction to Rust security and fuzzing, with particular focus on our ethereum 2.0 client, Client notes.
A Detailed Introduction to RSA Cryptography
A comprehensive discussion and derivation of RSA cryptography, including the generalisation to multiple primes.
Purity in the EVM
A definition of purity in the Ethereum EVM with strategies for detecting purity on-chain.
Solidity Security: Comprehensive list of known attack vectors and common anti-patterns
This post aims to be a relatively in-depth and up-to-date introductory post detailing the past mistakes that have been made by Solidity developers in an effort to prevent future devs from repeating history.
Proof-of-work in cryptocurrencies: an accessible introduction
This article provides an accessible explanation of the "proof-of-work" consensus algorithm as used in Bitcoin, Ethereum and many other cryptocurrencies.
Understanding Equihash: Mathematical Optimizations and Zcash
Overview of the Equihash mining algorithm and potential mathematical optimisation thought experiments.
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