TREE NEWS update: Decred has announced that approximately 2077.97 DCR tokens were minted due to a vulnerability, and the network will not be rolled back to undo the minting. The decision stands despite the exploit, which raised concerns about token supply integrity.
Decred: ~2077.97 DCR Minted Due to Bug, No Rollback
The refusal to roll back is the real story here: Decred is treating the minted supply as a permanent change to its monetary base rather than a reversible accident, which sets a precedent for how the network handles future supply-integrity failures. The affected parties are existing holders whose claims now sit against a larger outstanding supply, and anyone who assumed the chain's issuance schedule was inviolable. Whether the project pairs this stance with any supply-side remedy, or simply absorbs the dilution, is the open question.
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