Ethereum

During the Pectra fork test on Sepolia, a random anon decided to complicate Ethereum’s life by sending 0 ETH to the beacon deposit contract, triggering an edge case that produced empty blocks for several hours on Sepolia.

Nothing to gain, pure evil.

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I wrote up the story of the Pectra incident on Sepolia, its an interesting story about edge cases, coordination and an attacker who swooped in and made our lives much harder!

Check it out (4min read): 

https://t.co/0ezGnm0Z8j

MariusVanDerWijden

During the Pectra fork test on Sepolia, a random anon decided to complicate Ethereum’s life by sending 0 ETH to the beacon deposit contract, triggering an edge case that produced empty blocks for several hours on Sepolia.

Nothing to gain, pure evil.

https://x.com/vdwijden/status/1898665884236882428?s=46&t=Mb20rEx6_w-8XN4fwj1XOw

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Wouldn’t be possible in Production as this was Sepolia-specific.

But yes 🙌

If that didn't happen on testnet then it might have happened in production. 

The gain was resilience. The evil was genius.

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Right, strong words.

Although, not sure if devs learned anything? Wasn’t this a bandaids to bypass the token gated of the beacon chain, only in Sepolia.

This wouldn’t have been possible in Mainnet. Feels like just a “waste of time”.

Hmmm I’m not sure if I agree with that, now devs are aware of an edge case with ERC20s they otherwise wouldn’t have ALL known about that. Calling it pure evil on a testnet seems a bit harsh