FTX Chief Sam Bankman-Fried Backs Solana (SOL) A Day After Major Exploit, Here’s Why

A day after Solana confronted a significant exploit, FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried got here out supporting the SOL cryptocurrency. Throughout his current interview with the Fortune publication, SBF stated that Solana is probably the most under-rated cryptocurrency as of now.

He additional famous that regardless of all of the unhealthy PR, Solana has efficiently labored by way of 2/third of its technological points. He additional added that he’s assured that it’ll get by way of the opposite one-third. In the course of the interview, the SBF chief said:

Any blockchain would’ve damaged if it’d tried to do what Solana had performed. This was a manner for it to determine what wanted to be refined. Pushing the boundaries to see what breaks is what different blockchains “ought to be doing”.

Drawing a current comparability between the pockets exploits at Nomad and Solana, SBF wrote:

It is a good instance of how one thing will be under-rated. A random dAPP will get compromised and it’s blamed on the underlying blockchain. (To be clear, no core or inner infra had any points! It was only a single third-party utility some folks used…)

Solana Clarifies In regards to the Newest Exploit

On late Tuesday, greater than 8000 wallets have been compromised draining over $7 million in SOL tokens. Nonetheless, it appeared earlier that the Phantom wallets have been compromised, and additional investigation reveals that Slope’s cellular purposes have been compromised. Within the newest replace on Twitter, Solana wrote:

After an investigation by builders, ecosystem groups, and safety auditors, it seems affected addresses have been at one level created, imported, or utilized in Slope cellular pockets purposes.

It additionally added that the exploit was solely associated to 1 pockets on Solana. Nonetheless, all different {hardware} wallets utilized by slope stay safe. Solana additional provides that there’s no proof of the Solana protocol and its cryptography getting compromised.

The current occasion reveals one more instance of the vulnerability of pockets operators and the significance of chilly storage.