The Cardano blockchain suffered a temporary chain split on Friday after a malformed delegation transaction triggered a validation flaw.
The validation mismatch was triggered by a user who publicly apologized on X, stating that he was responsible for the bad transaction.
Cardano Network Disrupted By Malformed Transaction
Cardano’s blockchain temporarily split into two ledgers on Friday after a malformed transaction triggered a software flaw. The split resulted in several issues for Cardano users, prompting a public apology by the user responsible for the erroneous transaction. Cardano’s governance organization, Intersect, stated in an incident report that the split occurred when a malformed transaction passed validation on newer node versions, but was rejected by nodes still running older node versions. Intersect wrote in its report,
“This exploited a bug in an underlying software library that was not trapped by validation code. The execution of this transactio
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