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−2.4%Solana moves to retire durable nonces after $270 million Drift hack
Image: Cryptonews.comSolana developers announced a plan to deprecate durable nonces, the transaction feature exploited in the April Drift hack. The breach drained roughly $270 million from the decentralized exchange. Durable nonces allow signed transactions to remain valid indefinitely, unlike normal transactions that expire after about 30 seconds. Attackers used the feature to execute pre‑approved transactions more than a week after obtaining signatures from Drift's security council.
Key points
- Solana developers plan to retire durable nonces after they were used in the Drift hack.
- The Drift hack in April drained approximately $270 million from the protocol.
- Attackers exploited durable nonces to execute pre‑approved transactions more than a week after obtaining signatures from Drift's security council.
Why it matters
Retiring durable nonces could reduce similar attack vectors on Solana, improving security for users and DeFi protocols. It may also require changes to offline signing workflows.
Price context · SOL
At publication
$86.25
Now
$86.03
Change since
−0.26%
7 days · dashed line = publication
Sources · 2 publishers
Cryptonews.com
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Coverage timeline
- First reported by Crypto Briefing
- Also reported by Cryptonews.com
- CryptoVideos brief published
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