Obyte @ObyteOrg

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People pay close attention to what gets rewarded. Reward trading, and people trade. Reward staking, and people stake. #Obyte Friends friends.obyte.org experiments with something different: rewarding relationship building and participation. Different incentives create different behaviors.

The #Counterstake Bridge is currently under governance attack, and your help is needed. An attacker made governance proposals to change some bridge parameters to unsafe values. The attacker wants to change challenging periods on the three affected bridges to only 1 second while the current challenging periods are set to 3 days. If the changes become active, there will be no time to reliably challenge fraudulent claims and the attacker will be able to steal assets locked on the bridges. The bridges under attack are (with links to their governance pages): ETH: Ethereum -> Obyte counterstake.org/governance/0x7… USDC: Ethereum -> Obyte counterstake.org/governance/0x4… WBTC: Ethereum -> Obyte counterstake.org/governance/0x3… The attacker votes with rather significant balances for these changes: 0.6 ETH, 1000 USDC, and 0.015 WBTC. How you can help To stop the attack, we need to vote with larger total balances for the safe challenging periods “3d 7d 30d 60d” (“d” stands for “days”). Even if you don’t have any funds in the bridged tokens, please vote to protect the funds of other community members. Our total voting balances must exceed those of the attacker. You don’t risk your tokens by voting – you can withdraw them in full even if we lose the vote. However, your funds will be locked on the voting contract for at least 30 days and you’ll have to pay small transaction fees while voting. If you do have funds in the bridged ETH, USDC, or WBTC on Obyte, please withdraw them back to Ethereum both to safeguard your own funds and to reduce the attacker’s potential loot. Use the withdrawn funds to add more votes. After voting, please continue checking the governance pages because after we collect more votes than the attacker currently has, they can add more balance to their votes. Or, they can try to change other parameters or attack other bridges. The current challenging periods expire in about 3 days. This is how much time is left to protect the bridges. Going forward We have already deployed new, safer versions of bridges for ETH, USDC, and WBTC. They allow the governance to change parameters only within safe bounds, e.g. the challenging periods cannot be proposed to be less than 12 hours. We’ll migrate to these new bridges. Their tokens are called ETH2, USDCV2, and WBTC2 respectively, but we’ll rename them to ETH, USDC, and WBTC in about 30 days. Please move your balances from the old tokens to the new ones. In the meantime, please vote in #Counterstake governance to protect funds of the fellow community members.

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Being in the same community does not automatically mean knowing the people in it. How can communities help members connect with each other, not just coexist? That’s one of the ideas behind #Obyte Friends friends.obyte.org

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A few security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Obyte City and Obyte Friends. Your funds are safe, but Friends participants need to perform a few simple steps to withdraw their funds from the old Friends – see below. Obyte City Obyte City has been relaunched with a new, fixed AA. A new CITY token has been issued and already distributed to the existing holders 1:1. If you had the old CITY at ODEX, that balance has also been accounted for. The new token’s name is initially CITY_NEW. It will be renamed to CITY in 30 days and the old token will be renamed to CITY_OLD. Technically, you’ll still own the old tokens, but they’ll be worthless. All your plots and houses have been copied over to the new city and it looks exactly the same as the old one. No action is required from your side. The vulnerability was in the rental function of the old city. The old AA allows renting negative areas, which enables attackers to issue unlimited amounts of the old CITY tokens. This was fixed in the new AA. Obyte Friends Obyte Friends has also been relaunched. It’s operated by a new AA and has a new token. The new Obyte Friends starts with a clean slate, so you have to lock funds and make friends again. Sadly, due to the relaunch, old friends and rewards in FRD are lost in the new version. The new token is initially named FRD_NEW but will be renamed to FRD in 30 days, while the old token will be renamed to FRD_OLD –and it’ll be essentially worthless. The vulnerability was in the unlock date for extremely long locking terms. After year 10,000, the ISO8601 dates look like “+10000-01-01” and the “+” sign makes them sort before the present dates (which look like “2026-01-01”), making such deposits instantly withdrawable. This allows attackers to cyclically deposit and withdraw, while earning referral fees for the referrer every time and inflating FRD supply. That’s why we needed to migrate to a new AA. To withdraw your GBYTE/USDC/ETH locked in the old Friends, please contact us. We'll use this vulnerability to mint the old FRD for you (or you can do so yourself). Then, you will use the “replace” function to lock this FRD and release your locked tokens before your unlock date. The replace function is available on your profile page of the old Friends website oldfriends.obyte.org. After releasing the tokens, you can lock them again on the new Friends website friends.obyte.org. We're sorry for the inconvenience caused by this migration process. Fortunately, we avoided any losses from the bugs. Now, please start using the new, strengthened versions of these apps to rebuild our community. Another community building app is coming soon. Stay tuned!

One of the most interesting questions behind #Obyte Friends friends.obyte.org is: Can social participation be rewarded in a sustainable way? We’re still exploring the answer.

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@Real__Mr_P Lock some coins at friends.obyte.org (even a small amount), get your referral link, and start making friends. Contact me if you have any issues/questions.

We are looking for a small number of community builders, creators, and KOLs who would like to test onboarding users to Obyte Friends friends.obyte.org. As part of a limited experiment, participants can earn a $10 bonus for each user they onboard in addition to the normal OF rewards (which are much higher but mostly locked). If you are willing to participate, please let us know. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know.

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Most crypto communities are active only during hype. After that, activity fades and participation drops. Keeping people engaged long term is the hard part. That’s one of the ideas behind #ObyteFriends friends.obyte.org. Instead of rewarding only idle holding, OF is designed around ongoing participation, social activity, and network growth.

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