Jump Crypto Detects Critical Flaw In BNB Beacon Chain

Key Points:

• Jump Crypto published an article on its website saying that they have discovered a vulnerability in the Binance BNB Beacon Chain.
• The vulnerability would have allowed an attacker to mint an infinite number of arbitrary tokens on the Binance BNB Chain, which could have led to a large loss of funds.
• Thanks to the Jump team’s swift action, no malicious exploitation took place and no funds were lost.

The governance and staking layer of the Binance BNB Chain, known as the Binance BNB Beacon Chain, was found to be vulnerable, according to an article published by Jump Crypto on its website.

The EVM-compatible Smart Chain (BSC) and the Beacon Chain are the two blockchains that make up the BNB Chain built on top of Tendermint and Cosmos SDK.

According to the blog post, the Beacon Chain does not follow the upstream version of Cosmos SDK but uses a BNB fork hosted on GitHub. This forked version contains several BNB-specific changes. It deviates from the Cosmos SDK upstream in several ways, which leads to a number of issues to consider.

Due to the vulnerability, an attacker may have created an endless supply of any tokens on the Binance BNB Chain, which might have resulted in a significant financial loss.

The Binance BNB team was confidentially informed of the problem by Jump Crypto’s committed security team, and they quickly created and applied a solution. They responded quickly, preventing any malicious exploitation and funds loss.

BNB Chain is also the chain with a significant loss with an exploit of nearly $100 million in 2022. It is also one of the chains with strong on-chain activity with 233 million wallet addresses recorded in December 2022.

The BNB Chain development team also recently announced the launch of BNB Greenfield, a decentralized storage infrastructure within the ecosystem, where users and dApps can create, store and exchange data with full ownership to form a new data economy.

The BNB Greenfield white paper has been released. Potential use cases for BNB Greenfield include personal cloud storage, hosting and deploying websites, new social media models, and storing terabytes of data from BNB Smart Chain and L2 Rollup transactions.

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