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Ravencoin consensus bug puts exchanges and bridges on reorg alert
['Ashish Kumar', 'John Palmer', 'Glory Kaburu', 'Aamir Sheikh']
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Chain reorganization in a coin that’s worth relatively little could result in freezing funds already processed by exchanges and cross-chain bridges.
What Ravencoin actually disclosedOn August 10, the Ravencoin team shared a notice on X asserting that a vulnerability has been “demonstrated and exploited.”
As a result, invalid blocks may pass through the unpatched nodes.
The total excess issuance was approximately 301.8 million RVN.
In an April 28, 2026, postmortem, developer David Burkett said a Mimblewimble Extension Block bug produced a 13-block invalid chain during a second exploitation attempt in April.