ChainCatcher news, LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino responded on social media to the issue of bribery concerning the reported witch address. Pellegrino strongly advised the reporter not to alter the report, stating that the team possesses the original records from GitHub and Commonwealth, and editing or deleting the witch clusters could jeopardize the entire bounty.Previously, witch hunter @SybilHorror6 stated that after his report was made public, an anonymous individual contacted him and was willing to bribe him $12,000 to clear 3 clusters totaling 172 wallet addresses.

ChainCatcher news, Ahmad Shadid, founder and CEO of the Solana ecosystem DePIN protocol io.net, released an analysis of the event report from April 27 on social media, stating, "In the past 120 hours, io.net has been working to expel the witch attackers from the network, launching multiple security patches and establishing a new security model to prevent future incidents. The network infrastructure is now fully operational and functioning normally."In addition, Ahmad Shadid stated, "io.net is a team of over 100 people, working to clean up false GPUs and make the metrics displayed in the user interface clearer. io.net prioritizes security and stability, and operates in a transparent manner. Our business team is currently coordinating the network restart efforts, prioritizing vendor relationships, and working to restore network supply as soon as possible. We will still launch IO Cloud v2 and IO tokens as planned. This attack has been a painful lesson for me, and I apologize to the community. Most of the criticisms received by io.net are reasonable, and we will continue to improve the network based on community feedback."

ChainCatcher news, Gitcoin Passport announces the launch of Onchain Stamps. Gitcoin Passport holders can now transfer their Passport on-chain, seamlessly integrating with the Ethereum ecosystem.Onchain Stamps are built on the Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) and will initially be available on the OP mainnet, with plans to extend Gitcoin Passport to other EVM-compatible chains. Through interoperable attestations, projects can choose relevant attestations to resist Sybil attacks and authorization.

ChainCatcher message, the Arbitrum development team Offchain Labs is developing a defense mechanism titled "Add Relay Client Connection Randomness" to prevent MEV searchers from executing witch attacks on sequencers. This mechanism requires that the random numbers must be unique among different clients, and the relay will broadcast messages to clients in descending order of the random number target value, with the client having the highest random number target value receiving the message the fastest. If two connected random number target values are the same, then the client with the lower hash value will receive the broadcast first, and then propagate it to other relays. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the Web3 identity system Gitcoin Passport has announced the launch of the Scorer API, allowing developers to obtain witch protection equivalent to Gitcoin Grants with just a few lines of code. Additionally, to accompany the release of the Scorer API, the official documentation for developers has been completely overhauled. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to X-explore analysis, as of 8 AM Beijing time on October 20, Binance has accumulated 28,000 users depositing over 16.3 million APT, among which market makers deposited 4.12 million APT, and deposits identified by X-explore as witch addresses account for nearly 40%, exceeding 6.3 million.In addition, there are more than 7 large witch gangs that have deposited over 50,000 APT. As time goes by, the total amount of deposits continues to decline, but the proportion of deposits from witch addresses to normal users remains basically unchanged, with witch users accounting for over 65% of the total deposits. (source link)