Solana charges researchers 1 SOL per bug report

Solana now requires researchers to permanently burn 1 SOL for every bug submission after a monthlong security contest drew 809 reports, with AI believed to have helped generate or write nearly all of them. The fee is designed to cut the flood of AI-assisted spam hitting the network's security teams.

No details were disclosed on whether the fee applies retroactively, how burned SOL is accounted for, or what share of the 809 contest submissions were confirmed as real vulnerabilities.