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Plan for $1M bug bounties and double the nodes in wake of $600M Ronin hack

The Ronin Network and Sky Mavis have vowed to upgrade their smart contracts, offer lucrative bug bounties and ramp up security following the $600 million hack late last month. As Cointelegraph previously reported, the Ethereum sidechain developed for the popular NFT game Axie Infinity was the victim of an exploit for 173,600 Ether (ETH) and 25.5 million USD Coin (USDC), worth more than $612 million at the time. Earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) attributed the attack to North Korea-based and state-sponsored hacking group Lazurus, as it fired off a warning to other crypto and blockchain organizations. Ronin announced its platform changes via a post-mortem report published yesterday, noting that all user funds are in the process of being restored, as it vowed to ma...