Modular Blockchain Cartesi has given its PRT Honeypot app an upgrade – and that also applies to Layer 2 Dashboard L2Beat. After a revision by the Cartesi team, Honeypot now has new functions that make it better to perform the task for which it was designed: testing the protection of rollups.
The Cartesi team has worked intensively on the newest build in Honeypot, who debuted for the first time two years ago on Ethereum. The app effectively gamifies the important task of testing Rollup security, so that projects have the confidence that the funds who have their native networks are safe for hackers.
Honeypot becomes a bit sweeter
The “PRT” in PRT Honeypot stands for permissionless referred tournaments, which describe the fraud -resistant system that contains the app. In essence, this is a mechanism to ensure that Roll -ups have resistance to Sybil attacks, one of the most important ways in which an attacker may be in control of a rollup by operating multiple validators.
In every blockchain network, whether it is a rollup or conventional chain, it is necessary that validators are divided into terms of ownership to prevent centralization, to maximize error tolerance and ensure that snode actors are unable to unilaterally pull the strings. It is the primary upgrade that the new Honeypot app benefits and has helped this innovation with the recategorization that L2Beat subsequently donated.
Cartesi celebrates the app -upgrade
In a tweet that L2Beat’s allocation of a new category to Honeypot celebrated, Cartesi described it as an “important milestone for decentralization and trustless safety, in accordance with the standards of L2Beat.” They also have in the new functions that the app supports in a blog post that summarizes how the app summarizes.
Like a Gamified app for Whitehats, Tasks Honeypot -Takes Taken participants try to hack the app in an attempt to claim the CTSI pricing jar. Developers are invited to view the Honeypot Github -Repo and see if they can find a way to exploit it. Cartesi has also invited the wider community to follow the progress and to see if one of the Whitehats that takes up the challenge can crack the code.
Make rollups more reliable
Although Honeypot is presented as a nice challenge – a kind of running hackathon – there is a serious intention behind the challenge. Making rollups safer, benefits the entire web3 ecosystem, because these lightweight networks are becoming more and more dependent on scaling L1s such as Ethereum. It is vital that they are very safe, because every exploit would affect the confidence in the entire Rollup framework.
As Cartesi explains, Honeypot has been designed to resolve the challenge of “verifying state transitions in a permissionless, decentralized way that can withstand Sybil attacks, without massing mass assumptions.” The PRT component is designed to invalidate validators who act unfairly in an attempt to cheat the network.
With Honeypot that now serves as a test bed for Rollup protection, this means that Cartesi can rightly claim that he offers his bit to improve the industrial standards when it comes to network design. As long as Honeypot remains impregnable, it can be considered proof that all Cartesi -based rollups are just as robust, while causing dispute resolution can also be achieved without endangering decentralization.