Our community-based feedback and issue reporting contest on Core v2.6 has come to an end. We’d like to thank everyone who helped and participated in this initial testing phase. More than 70 issues from the community were opened and have been resolved, which will net participants in total over $3,000 USD for reporting issues or improvement suggestions!

Core v2.6 is around the corner and the last step of this big adventure is the upcoming Release Candidate (RC) on Devnet which will run as a final test before we move to Mainnet.

The current plan is to deploy the RC on Devnet this Monday, the 13th of January 2020. This will run for a week or two before moving it to Mainnet, depending on any last issues or reports (when RC gets deployed on Devnet we will also go back to normal reporting for security vulnerabilities).

What’s Next for Core?

During the v2.6 development, we have been working on Core v3 in parallel. We are happy to say that Core v3 development is very far along and we will soon (after v2.6 settles on Mainnet) be making its codebase public! We want to get input and get it out in the open as soon as possible for community developers, testers & bridgechains to start helping and playing with. You can also expect a lot of cool Core v3 related blog posts getting published each week!

Now to announce our winners and eligible participants of the Core v2.6 testing bug bounty program!

Winners & Participants

#1 Dated — TOTAL $2,045 USD ($1,045 + $1,000 BONUS)

Total eligible issues reported 48 worth $1,045

Number of tier 4 issues: 37 = $ 555

Number of tier 3 issues: 7 = $ 210

Number of tier 2 issues: 3 = $ 180

Number of tier 1 issues: 1 = $ 100

#2 Lemii — TOTAL $810 USD ($310 + $500 BONUS)

Total eligible issues reported 12 worth $310

Number of tier 4 issues: 8 = $ 120

Number of tier 3 issues: 3 = $ 90

Number of tier 1 issues: 1 = $ 100

#3 Alessiodf — TOTAL $415 USD ($165 + $250 BONUS)

Total eligible issues reported 5 worth $165

Number of tier 4 issues: 1 = $ 15

Number of tier 3 issues: 3 = $ 90

Number of tier 2 issues: 1 = $ 60

#4 Biolypl — TOTAL $30 USD

Total eligible issues reported 2 worth $30

Number of tier 4 issues: 2 = $ 30

#5 Deanpress — TOTAL $15 USD

Total eligible issues reported 1 worth $15

Number of tier 4 issues: 1 = $ 15

#6 Galperins4 — TOTAL $15 USD

Total eligible issues reported 1 worth $15

Number of tier 4 issues: 1 = $ 15

#7 Mudlee — TOTAL $15 USD

Total eligible issues reported 1 worth $15

Number of tier 4 issues: 1 = $ 15

Overview of resolved issues

Dated:

Lemii:

Alessiodf:

Biolypl:

Mudlee:

Deanpress

Galperins:

Thank you again to all who participated! You are all ARK’s rockstars! 🌟