White Hat Hacker Awarded $2 Million for Fixing ETH-Creation Bug

Ethereum layer-2 solution, Optimism, fixed a major flaw that would have permitted an illegal and continuous creation of ETH tokens.  According to sources, Optimism might have just solved a significant system vulnerability issue. The potential glitch got the attention of developers at Ethereum through an Ethical Hacker, Jay Freeman, who discovered flaws in the code and saved the network from significant theft risks.  The bug, now curtailed, was reportedly triggered by an Etherscan employee. Had the issue not been promptly…