A $ 5 million bounty for HACKER’s ID during the centralization issue of CETUS post SUI Freeze
CETUS protocol has been posted Rewards of $ 5 million on May 23 Information to identify and arrest an attacker Distributed $ 223 million in distributed exchange In the SUI network.
The proposal, announced on May 23, will be adjusted with Cyber security firm Inca Digital, and if the tip is decisively proven, it will fund the SUI FOUNDATION.
The information provider must send the name, location and support of the offender by email with “cetus lead”. Dex added that if they return their assets and accept the previous agreement proposal, they will withdraw civil lawsuit and cancel the bounty.
In particular, the proposal occurs in the midst of centralization of the SUI due to the freezing of $ 162 million out of 114 validation testors.
Whitehat proposal sets the stage
A few hours before the public bounty Separate proposal from an attacker SUI and Etherrium (ETH) blockchain.
The note provided $ 6 million of conservation fees, which corresponds to 2,324 ETH in exchange for 20,920 ETH’s revenue and all the frozen amounts of the SUI.
The team maps the Etherit Wallet of the Extroy, and said that it is adjusting with the US Federal authorities, FINCEN, Seychelles Police, selected defense partners, major exchange and bridges.
Ultimatum warned that attempts to wash funds will cause the world’s law enforcement escalation.
Under the release of the Protocol on X’s Protocol on X, the attacker urged the immediate suspension of all smart contract activities, aiming at the defect of CETUS’s price mechanism. According to the blockchain data of the project, this Exploy calculated $ 223 million tokens.
Of these, $ 6.1 million was transferred to Etherrium through the bridge, and the remaining $ 166 million was frozen by the SUI Network Validators.
CETUS did not disclose whether the team would implement the code change before the normal transaction resumed or before re -activating the contract.
Validation inspection behavior triggers decentralization discussion
According to it Block explorer,,, The SUI hosts 114 active validation instruments. May 22, SUI stated The extensive revenge agreed to refuse to trade in the attacker’s wallet immediately after the violation.
The group freeze blocked the remaining $ 160 million and locked the token on chain.
Co -founder of Gautham Santhosh, PolynomialFi, I wrote it on x The encryption community now assesses the advantage of rapid asset protection on the meaning that the validity test machine can stop a specific account.
He emphasized that this process was not arbitrarily demanded and was not arbitrary, but this episode changed a security assumption on layer -1 block chains.
