One of thehackers from White Hat is rewarded $2 Million(roughly Rs.
15 crores) for fixing a critical bug in Ethereum Layer 2 scaling project Optimism.
The bug could have let the hackers create Ether in Optimism account balance as much they want.
Jay uncovered weaknesses in the code and rescued the online grid from theft threats.
An employee from Etherscan has caused the flaw, which is now fixed.
A blog post by the Optisim team says the chain history showed that the bug was not exploited.
Any Ethereum developer may let one of the chains forks create new tokens automatically.
Luckily, Optisim restored the integrity of the connection by fixing the bug.
After they received notification of the problem, the team quickly started fixing on Kovan testnet and Optimism Mainnet.
This problem was also reported to other affiliated forks and bridges.
However, now the Optimism and other Ethereum-related projects are bug-free.
