Solana Charges Researchers 0.5 SOL to Report Alpenglow Flaws

Solana's Alpenglow bug hunt is underway, and security researchers are being charged 0.5 SOL to report flaws before the competition closes on August 19 at 16:00 UTC.

The rules require every finding to pass through a designated portal, which burns the fee and creates one confidential GitHub Security Advisory. Reports sent through another channel are ineligible.

The target is consequential, as Alpenglow proposes a backwards-incompatible replacement for Solana's current Proof-of-History and TowerBFT consensus protocol.

Researchers pay the filing cost before Anza determines validity, severity, duplication or reward. They also work against a moving version of Agave master. Each report must identify the commit where the flaw appeared, reproduce the issue there, and arrive while the bug remains unfixed on master.