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Sep 2, 2026

Core DAO plans emergency hard fork after validators extract excess CORE rewards

Core DAO is coordinating an emergency hard fork after a small group of validators exploited the blockchain to claim more CORE token rewards than the protocol was designed to issue. Several exchanges have halted CORE transfers in response to the incident.

Sep 2, 2026·3 sources

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Top claims

▪The complexity of the Satoshi Plus scoring formula creates a larger attack surface than simpler consensus designs, which contributed to the reward distribution vulnerability.
▪South Korean exchanges Bithumb and Coinone suspended CORE deposits and withdrawals, citing security concerns surrounding the Core network.
▪Core DAO is coordinating an emergency hard fork with its validator set to permanently patch the reward distribution vulnerability.

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Consensus mechanisms Blockchain governance Tokenomics Crypto exchanges