The infinite inflation of VLX could have destroyed Velas’ $100M market cap, but the threat has been mitigated thanks to the responsible disclosure of the vulnerability, and the resulting security fix (commit). After spending some time writing infrastructure for finding smart contracts vulnerabilities, I stumbled upon pwning.eth’s great writeups for “delegatecall -> precompiled smart contract”-type bugs found in the implementations of blockchain nodes. It struck me as the type of pitfall that ...