Pyth Network
Bounty Range
$1,000 - $250,000
external program
Pyth Network
Pyth Network is the largest and fastest-growing first-party oracle network. Pyth delivers real-time market data to financial dApps across 50+ blockchains and provides 380+ low-latency price feeds across cryptocurrencies, equities, ETFs, FX pairs, and commodities.
For more information about Pyth Network, please visit https://pyth.network.
Pyth Network provides rewards in USDC, denominated in USD.
Pyth Network provides rewards in USDC on Ethereum, denominated in USD.
Smart Contract
Websites and Applications
Mainnet Assets:
Reward amount is 10% of the funds directly affected up to a maximum of $250,000. The minimum reward to discourage security researchers from withholding a bug report is $50,000.
Reward Calculation for Critical Smart Contract Reports
For critical smart contract bugs, the reward amount is 10% of the funds directly affected up to a maximum of 250,000 USDC. The calculation of the amount of funds at risk is based on the time and date the bug report is submitted. For the avoidance of doubt, directly affected funds calculation does not include downstream protocols or users of the Pyth protocol or any effects on the $PYTH token price.
Reward Calculation for Critical Websites and Applications Reports
For Critical web/apps bug reports will be rewarded with USD 50,000, only if the impact leads to:
All other impacts that would be classified as Critical would be rewarded a flat amount of USD 30,000.
Repeatable Attack Limitations
If the smart contract where the vulnerability exists can be upgraded or paused, only the initial attacks within the first hour will be considered for a reward. This is because the project can mitigate the risk of further exploitation by upgrading or pausing the component where the vulnerability exists. The reward amount will depend on the severity of the impact and the funds at risk.
For critical repeatable attacks on smart contracts that cannot be upgraded or paused, the project will consider the cumulative impact of the repeatable attacks for a reward. This is because the project cannot prevent the attacker from repeatedly exploiting the vulnerability until all funds are drained and/or other irreversible damage is done. Therefore, this warrants a reward equivalent to 10% of funds at risk, capped at the maximum critical reward.
Reward Calculation for High Smart Contract Reports
High vulnerabilities concerning theft/permanent freezing of unclaimed yield/royalties are rewarded up to $50,000 USDC depending on the funds at risk, capped at the maximum high reward.
In the event of temporary freezing, the reward doubles from the full frozen value for every additional 24h that the funds are temporarily frozen, up until a max cap of the high reward. This is because as the duration of the freezing lengthens, the potential for greater damage and subsequent reputational harm intensifies. Thus, by increasing the reward proportionally with the frozen duration, the project ensures stronger incentives for bug disclosure of this nature.
Reward Calculation for High Websites and Applications Reports
For High web/app impacts, the maximum reward of USD 20,000 will only be paid out for issues that affect our main user-facing applications, generally hosted under pyth.network.
Reward Payment Terms
Payouts are handled by the Pyth Data Association directly and are denominated in USD. However, payments are done in USDC.
The calculation of the net amount rewarded is based on the average price between CoinMarketCap.com and CoinGecko.com at the time the bug report was submitted. No adjustments are made based on liquidity availability.
Pyth Network will be requesting KYC information in order to pay for successful bug submissions. The following information will be required:
The submission of KYC information is a requirement for payout processing.
Proof of concept is always required for all severities. A PoC, demonstrating the bug's impact, is required for this program and has to comply with the Immunefi PoC Guidelines and Rules.
Pyth Network commits to providing Known Issue Assurance to bug submissions through their program. This means that Pyth Network will either disclose known issues publicly, or at the very least, privately to reporters who we believe have discovered a duplicate bug report.
In a potential scenario of a mediation, this allows for a more objective and streamlined process, in order to prove that an issue is known. Otherwise, assuming the bug report is valid, it would result in the report being considered as in-scope, and due a reward.
Pyth Network's completed audit reports can be found at https://github.com/pyth-network/audit-reports. Any unfixed vulnerabilities mentioned in these reports are not eligible for a reward.
Pyth Network adheres to the Primacy of Rules, which means that the whole bug bounty program is run strictly under the terms and conditions stated within this page.
Responsible Publication
Category 3: Approval Required
The project may be receiving reports that are valid (the bug and attack vector are real) and cite assets and impacts that are in scope, but there may be obstacles or barriers to executing the attack in the real world. In other words, there is a question about how feasible the attack really is. Conversely, there may also be mitigation measures that projects can take to prevent the impact of the bug, which are not feasible or would require unconventional action and hence, should not be used as reasons for downgrading a bug's severity.
Therefore, Immunefi has developed a set of feasibility limitation standards which by default states what security researchers, as well as projects, can or cannot cite when reviewing a bug report.
Participants must adhere to the Eligibility Criteria.