$USDC The good news for Solana is that a critical vulnerability in its Token-2022 standard was successfully patched last month, allowing the network to avert potential disaster. But despite what was, technically, a victory, the incident's hush-hush nature spawned a backlash.

One community member, Clouted, first called attention to the private nature of the patch coordination. “Am I hearing this right?" Clouted said on X on April 17. "There was a zero-day on Solana mainnet and ... [less than 70%] of validators privately colluded to upgrade and patch the critical bug ... before it was even made public?”