The Nomad Whitehat Prize is a reward created by Metagame to incentivize hackers to return the stolen $190 million of the Nomad Bridge.
The exclusive NFT, which simply depicts a white wizard’s hat, is being offered by NFT firm Metagame and can be minted by those that return at least 90% of their stolen funds to Nomad.
“If you haven’t yet returned funds, you can still do so now! Metagame checks your on-chain tx history automatically,”
The Nomad team stated via Twitter on August 23
Speaking with Cointelegraph, Metagame founder Brenner Spear noted that while he has “no idea if it’ll nudge anyone to return funds that wouldn’t have otherwise,” the move is part of a broader attempt to foster and support good behavior in the sector.
“I am supportive of people doing the right things for the wrong reasons. More of the right things will happen, and maybe, people will start doing more of the right things for the right reasons too.”
The non-fungible token doesn’t have any function, as it essentially serves as a trophy to represent an act of good faith. The first 50 people to return the funds in relation to this promo, will also receive 100 FF tokens ($53) from web3 platform Forefront.
For this NFT reward, the community scoffed and thought it was a joke and would have no effect in recovering the lost money.
On August 2, The Nomad Bridge was initially hacked, after bad actors discovered a security loophole in Nomad’s smart contracts which allowed them to extract funds that didn’t belong to them via dubious transactions.
Hundreds of copycats then joined in on the fun by copying the original hack’s code while slightly changing the target token, token amount, and recipient addresses, according to a post-mortem analysis earlier this month from Coinbase’s principal blockchain threat intelligence researcher Peter Kacherginsky and Heidi Wilder.
As of Aug. 8, Cointelegraph reported that white hat hackers had returned around $32.6 million of the total $190 million that was stolen.
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