๐งต on the Rainbow Bridge attack today.
TL;DR: attack was stopped automatically, no bridged funds lost, attacker lost some money, bridge architecture was designed to resist such attacks, additional measures to be taken to ensure the cost of an attack attempt is increased
The last three weeks introduced a drastic change in my life and I cannot be silent about it. Now I'm homeless, along with millions of others.
The thread is rough. But I have no other words for this. I cannot be polite when my people are dying.
๐งต
1/25
๐งต on the Rainbow Bridge attack during the weekend
TL; DR: similar to May attack; no user funds lost; attack was mitigated automatically within 31 seconds; attacker lost 5 ETH.
Simple truth is that robust backbone (scalable RPC + chain that doesn't stop) and great UX is a receipt for Blockchain Mass Adoption.
The first you can get from
@auroraisnear
and
@NEARProtocol
. The second you must demand from your team.
Forwarder is a solution that brings multiple innovations to be unpacked over the next days:
1. Automatic connection of Aurora Cloud networks to CEXes and on-ramps
2. Bridge-less UX for transferring assets between chains -- it's sufficient to click the 'send' in your wallet
1/ Bridge Abstraction is here: Effortlessly withdraw from CEXs to Aurora & other virtual blockchains. Prioritize project development over the hassle of listings simplifying your development journey!
๐
You don't need to be born as L2, you can become an L2.
This is a thread about L2s, bridges and why Aurora architecture allows it to be treated as one of the best-designed Ethereum scalability solutions.
๐งต
Cool weekend news: together
@NEARProtocol
and
@auroraisnear
just made it to the top10 chains by TVL according to DefiLlama (all sliders on). Congratz!
What do you think would happen if $USN rumours would be true?
We discovered some strange activity happening with the Rainbow Bridge. At the moment bridge operations are stopped. Please wait for the update.
No enormous movements of funds detected by now.
๐งตAn emergency update to all Aurora users with explanations.
TL; DR: Aurora RPC would accept transactions with gas price of 1 Gwei at least, starting 17:00 UTC today (in approx. 1h).
I'll put it as a Socratic dialogue ๐จ๏ธ
Full EVM scalability solution developed in 4 months; RPC that is 20x better than anything on the market in 6 months; Top3 bridge that was not hacked.
This is Aurora. Join us if you want not only research or marketing, but deliver.
My message to God:
Whoever you are, please stop innocent people dying in this meaningless war. Save our land. Save our families. Save our children.
25/25
Rainbow bridge continues innovating, bringing the fastest possible (modulo Ethereum finality) permissionless bridging.
Now, in private beta test mode. You can join the test sending to
@auroraisnear
your NEAR wallet, name and org.
Huge win for the whole
@NEARProtocol
ecosystem!
๐งต
I understand that all eyes are now on the live bloodbath. But exactly today 1y ago happened something really important.
Aurora was released in production.
This is a thread about achievements
๐งต
Just minutes ago Aurora DAO has approved the update to AURORA token economy, marking a major milestone in the project development. The proposal was already heavily discussed by the community, but let me summarise it in this thread...
Important, Aurora won't block Russian users. Why? Well, it's simple: because blockchain is decentralised. We build this tech exactly to not fall into the shortcomings of the corrupted governments.
20/25
18 / 18
Aurora Labs is continuing doing our best to develop the most secure tech that is working in the heart of the
@auroraisnear
ecosystem.
Stay tuned.
This is what happens with autocratic regimes: all the power is accumulated in single hands, which decide what is good and what is bad for 130M people. And usually they fail. That's why people invented multiple branches of government, independent courts and democracy.
9/25
๐งต This is a thread on the value accrual mechanisms for tokens.
TL; DR: network fees and forcing users to buy the base token have nothing in common with the value accrual; the value is in the ecosystem; AURORA staking helps distributing the value
A ๐งต on the recent precautionary pause of the Rainbow Bridge.
TL:DR: it was a bug in the NEAR Core, no funds lost; the vulnerability was never exploited on the Rainbow Bridge; operations of the bridge are fully restored.
@auroraisnear
@NEARProtocol
@PagodaPlatform
We discovered some strange activity happening with the Rainbow Bridge. At the moment bridge operations are stopped. Please wait for the update.
No enormous movements of funds detected by now.
๐งต
This is a thread for entrepreneurs looking to leverage the benefits of blockchain, and facing the fundamentally important question โ which network should I choose?
Letโs get started, and try to separate the signal from the noise.
Remember all these people with red laser eyes on the bull market? Probably they all were selling (that's why it was red).
Now it's time to build. And I'm laser-green-eyed for that.
15 / 18
For everyone's information:
I personally know about 5 watchdogs that are running 24/7. And no one in the world knows about all of them (a protection from the insiders). You can improve the security by simply running the watchdog script from
This is a ๐งต about Aurora Cloud and why it's superior to any L2 stack.
TL;DR: decentralised sequencer, built-in composability between chains.
Read on for more details ๐
17 / 18
I wish everyone who is innovating in the blockchain to pay enough attention to security and robustness of their products through all the available means: automatic systems, notifications, bug bounties, internal and external audits.
Do you have the feeling that blockchains NGMI? And that they look like Ponzis?
In this ๐งต I will share my reflections on the topic and what we should do to change this sentiment.
TL; DR (spoiler): Fix blockchain UX and get them users.
This was a mad decision of the insane dictator that believes he's a God on the Earth. This was the largest mistake in the modern history that would put Russia back at least 50 years, with no option to recover within the next 20 years.
8/25
First of all, many people are trying to check whether I'm alive. I am. And my family too. We moved out from Kharkiv on the second day of the invasion.
2/25
My message to
@ZelenskyyUa
:
Shortly Putin will want to conclude a truce. But he needs to sell that he won. You can continue the fight and then more people will die, or to find a compromise. Please be wise.
It's our big luck having you as a president in these dark times.
24/25
Decentralization. A core value of the blockchain. Though probably it is a distant future rather than the current situation. Or the opposite? This is a ๐งต about professional validators and why things are better with decentralization than it seems from the first sight.
There's no single reason for this war. It's a whim of a mad old man, who's dreaming of assembling the great empire again and leave a footstep in the history. Well, he will. Just next to Hitler.
12/25
0/ Aurora: Another EVM Chain, or the Beginning of Near?
Delphi analyst
@ceterispar1bus
broke down the economics of
@auroraisnear
, the EVM on
@NEARProtocol
, to see how it interacts with the L1 itโs built on and what that means for the future of both Near and Aurora itself.
Oh, how I hate all these ppl who are dancing on the bones of other projects: Harmony's Horizon is hacked, I've always said that you need to use ***. Disgusting.
Be kind. Spread the light.
Our prayers for builders in
@harmonyprotocol
and their user base ๐
My message to Russian people:
Putin doesn't have enough jails to put all of you there. Go and do the change. If not, well, Putin will implement Stalin-style repressions to keep you as obedient herd after the war ends. And I won't feel sorry for you then.
15/25
GM. As you might know, Aurora DAO delayed the distribution of AURORA to private round investors. Aurora Labs is doing the same for the team incentives.
We are here to build, not speculate.
More info on AURORA distribution can be found in this new article:
It took 4.5 years from 0 to 5k followers (see Dec. 21st tweet). It took only 129 days to get to 10k with natural growth. Now it's only the blue checkmark in front of us.
My message to Ukrainian army:
Your true enemy is not in front of you. He is hiding in a bunker. Please show some mercy to the attackers and try to capture them instead of killing if possible. Let's not multiply the sorrow.
All of you are our heroes.
23/25
USN Protection Program is a BSOD for NEAR ecosystem -- an evidence of extreme robustness. You learn about ecosystems during the black swan events. Responsible move from
@NEARProtocol
!
Aurora Labs is on duty, protecting the users as always
Read more here:
My message to Russian troops:
Stop executing orders that go opposite your military directives, where it's stated that Russian army has a goal of defending Russia.
And please read the story of Stanislav Petrov -- The Man Who Saved The World.
16/25
11 / 18
Important:
For at least 6 months we knew that watchdog transaction would be front run by the MEV bots (reported by our auditors
@sigp_io
).
Main reason to keep this mechanics is the additional protection: MEV bots know how to get transactions executed ASAP.
Gm,
@MrBrownNFT
!
It looks like the NFT season starts on Aurora too. Can we do something together with you, so we do not fall out of trends?
BTW, I cannot draw things, except for quantifiers and integrals. And primitive shapes.๐
But you would be able to figure it out, right?
Within the last three weeks I've seen so much pain, sorrow and grief than in all of my life before.
And for those of you who sees it only in the news, even the most objective and brutal videos cannot convey 10% of it.
7/25
And western politics should understand that the total destruction of Ukraine won't be a win and he will go for your citizens. It's just the matter of time. Do something now to stop Russia. There's no to time for caution.
14/25
I didn't understand why some CEOs have more subscribers than their company's accounts. Now I think that's because of 1) poor marketing 2) genuine human thoughts.
This tweet is about prooving that
@auroraisnear
marketing is good ๐
My message to Ukrainian people:
Be strong and brave. The dark times won't be forever and the justice will prevail. You are the most freedom-loving people in the world. Our grandparents defended the world from Hitler. Putin is negligible comparing to him.
22/25
The Rainbow Bridge was paused as a precautionary measure. No funds are lost. We are working on getting the bridge back up quickly.
More details to follow.
Putin's propaganda is now working 24/7 trying to convince people that everything's good. And for those who believe it, I have for you only one argument: isn't it strange that all the countries are against this, except for Eritrea?
11/25
The big problem is that Putin is unable to accept the defeat. He doesn't know how to deal with it. He's afraid of it. So he will kill civilians, launch missiles and use nukes until he'll get something to sell to his people as a victory.
13/25
Some of you are wondering why I'm not tweeting? Go check out , read in between the lines and you would understand what we're building at the moment.
For the last 6 years in crypto I have never been that excited.
Putin is surrounded by cowards that cannot say any alternative point of view. And if occasionally one appears on the horizon, they got poisoned, put in jails or just killed in the middle of Moscow with no investigation.
10/25
Hopefully, now, after all of these happening, governments would start to realise the value of the blockchain, instead of seeing only a threat to their existing financial system and regulating the hell of it.
21/25
Typical morning of Ukrainian blockchain enthusiast:
1) Check on bombings
2) Demand from yourself to work more to donate more
3) Understand that blockchain is in a similar war between ecosystems
4) Write a tweet to stop war and work towards better future together
The Rainbow Bridge operations has been fully restored. One can execute new transfers as well as finalise the ones that has been started before the pause.
In-depth review of the issue to follow.
The Rainbow Bridge was paused as a precautionary measure. No funds are lost. We are working on getting the bridge back up quickly.
More details to follow.
Aurora TVL is over $200M according to DefiLlama!
And I know that some DeFi projects are not yet integrated with it. Right,
@RoseOnAurora
?
Exciting to see this movement! NFA
Users of
@NEARProtocol
may be experiencing some delays in the UIs of the applications (Wallet,
@finance_ref
,
@skywardfinance
).
This is caused by the degraded performance of NEAR RPC nodes due to network restructure because of the sharding activation.
9 / 18
Outcome
#1
:
The attack was mitigated fully automatically, Rainbow Bridge users even didn't saw anything happening, continuing transacting in both directions.
16 / 18
Every watchdog transaction, that would fail because of the front running will be rewarded with a portion of the attacker stake through the manual process. In case this happens, please send me a message.
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My message to Putin:
You are ัััะบะปะพ, Mr. Putin. A terrorist, that should be 'ะทะฐะผะพัะตะฝ ะฒ ัะพััะธัะต'. But thanks for uniting Ukraine. And see you in Hague.
P.S.: hope you will meet Kernes soon, and he will explain you that building Kharkiv is a hard thing.
17/25