Io.net's response to the attack conflicted with the reward program snapshot time, so the second season of Ignition Rewards will be launched

PANews reported on April 28 that Husky.io, Chief Security Officer of Solana Ecosystem DePIN Protocol Io.net, released an update on the io.net metadata API attack this morning. As previously announced, in order to prevent such incidents from happening again in the future, the deployment of zero-trust authentication (OKTA) at the device level has been accelerated, which requires all nodes to restart and update to the latest client. Unfortunately, this conflicts with the snapshot time of the reward program, which means that the expected reduction in supply-side participants has been further exacerbated. Even those real, proof-of-work GPUs that have not been restarted and updated can no longer access the runtime API and send heartbeats to io.net, causing the number of active GPU connections to drop sharply from 600,000 to 10,000.

In response to this incident, the second season of Ignition Rewards was launched in May to encourage supply-side participation. We are working directly with suppliers to upgrade, restart, and reconnect to the network. We have fixed security issues and re-enabled self-service clusters, and are now working hard to develop self-service large clusters. The browser is being updated to more clearly show recently connected but unverified devices, devices verified by proof of work, and devices that are both verified and sending active heartbeats. Husky.io said: "There are a lot of bugs to fix, UI improvements to improve, and demand to grow. Despite the many problems, the network is still serving hundreds of thousands of computing hours per month and is still growing. It's early days and there will be bumps in the road."