{"id":651869,"date":"2026-09-02T04:52:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T04:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/core-dao-plans-emergency-hard-fork-after-validators-drew-excess-rewards\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T04:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T04:52:45","slug":"core-dao-plans-emergency-hard-fork-after-validators-drew-excess-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/core-dao-plans-emergency-hard-fork-after-validators-drew-excess-rewards\/","title":{"rendered":"Core DAO plans emergency hard fork after validators drew excess rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Core<\/p>\n

Core says the incident is contained and its planned forward upgrade will not roll back the network or reverse previously confirmed transactions.<\/p>\n

Core DAO is coordinating an emergency hard fork after validators claimed more CORE rewards than the blockchain intended to issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an update, Core said<\/a> the incident had been contained and that \u201cmalicious validators\u201d could no longer draw excess rewards. It said the fork would be a forward upgrade and would not roll back the network or reverse any previously confirmed transactions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This followed an earlier status update<\/a> on Monday, in which Core said a small number of validators had accrued rewards significantly above the protocol\u2019s intended issuance. It said the incident was limited to reward issuance and that user assets remained safe, adding that it would publish a technical postmortem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Core says the incident is contained and its planned forward upgrade will not roll back the network or reverse previously confirmed transactions. Core DAO is coordinating an emergency hard fork after validators claimed more CORE rewards than the blockchain intended to issue.\u00a0 In an update, Core said the incident had been contained and that \u201cmalicious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":651870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-651869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}