Topic

Blockchain rollbacks

Coordinated reversals of a blockchain's recent history, in which nodes adopt a revised chain that drops a set of blocks and the transactions in them.

Current clusters

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Harmony's answer to a forged 4 billion ONE: delete 109,441 confirmed transactions

The layer-1 will rewind both shards to an Aug. 11 checkpoint and ship a client that rejects the exploit's blocks. Finality on Harmony is now whatever the team decides to keep.

Publishers:cointelegraph.comcrowdfundinsider.comcryptopolitan.com

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers

Builder: Builder 33%
Operator: Operator 35%
Investor: Investor 32%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives60
Confidence55

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Zano prepares to rewind a day of payments that exchanges had counted as final

Zano may roll back about 24 hours of transactions to contain a flaw in how assets, including its fUSD stablecoin, were issued on its chain. Honest payments from that day would be erased with the bad ones, leaving exchanges to recheck deposits they had counted as settled.

Publishers:cryptopolitan.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives45
Confidence40