🚨 $200K XRPL Attackathon: Hackers, Assemble! 💻✨

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Oh, darling, grab your lattes and your laptops because Ripple and Immunefi are throwing a party-a $200,000 “Attackathon” extravaganza! 🎉 Yes, you read that right. They’re basically saying, “Come at us, hackers!” to find vulnerabilities in their soon-to-launch XRPL Lending Protocol. Because nothing says “we’re serious about security” like a six-figure bounty, right? 💸

According to the official announcement (read: their very serious tweet), this is a “time-boxed, adversarial competition”-aka a fancy way of saying, “You’ve got five weeks to break our stuff.” 🕒 Immunefi chirped:

We’ve partnered with @rippleXDev to launch a $200,000 Attackathon helping secure the proposed XRPL Lending Protocol.

This is a time-boxed, adversarial competition to identify vulnerabilities before the protocol reaches production. 🚀

– Immunefi (@immunefi) October 13, 2025

Now, let’s talk about this XRPL Lending Protocol, shall we? It’s based on the XLS-66 standard, which sounds like a fancy spreadsheet but is actually about delivering fixed-duration, uncollateralized loans to the XRP Ledger. 🧮 No smart contracts, no wrapped assets, no collateral-just pure, unadulterated trust in institutions. Because who needs collateral when you’ve got vibes, right? 🌈

Instead of checking creditworthiness on-chain (so 2023), institutions can do it off-chain but still enjoy the perks of on-chain transparency and efficiency. It’s like having your cake and eating it too, but with blockchain. 🍰✨

The Attackathon: Because Who Doesn’t Love a Good Hack?

The competition runs from October 27 to November 29, 2025, with a cozy education period from October 13 to October 27 to get everyone up to speed. Think of it as a crash course in “How to Break Things Responsibly.” 📚 The $200,000 reward pool is unlocked if at least one valid vulnerability is found. But if everything’s hunky-dory, there’s a $30,000 consolation prize for “valuable ideas.” Because participation trophies are so blockchain. 🏆

Researchers, listen up! Target risks like fund security, vault solvency, liquidation logic, and permissioned access control. Basically, anything that could make the protocol go 😵‍💫. Submissions need to be bugs in deployed codebases with working proofs of concept. No half-baked ideas, please-this isn’t a bake sale. 🍪

Support for Researchers: Because Even Hackers Need Hand-Holding

Ripple and Immunefi are rolling out the red carpet with the Attackathon Academy, an open-access Education Program. Think live sessions with engineers, devnet guides, and step-by-step instructions. It’s like a blockchain bootcamp, but with fewer push-ups and more coding. 💻 The academy stays open post-competition, because learning never stops-even for hackers. 🌱

This Attackathon is Ripple’s latest move to make the XRP Ledger the Beyoncé of institutional-grade DeFi. �QueenBey By getting the global security community involved early, they’re ensuring the XRPL Lending Protocol is as secure as Fort Knox-but, you know, for financial transactions. 💼

So, if you’ve got the skills (and the nerve), mark your calendars and get ready to hack like your student loans depend on it. Because let’s face it, they probably do. 💔

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2025-10-14 11:44