Payouts under the Hydration bug bounty program are only made for reports of vulnerabilities which fall under the scope of the program. You can find a full overview of all assets which are in scope hereunder.

If an impact can be caused to any other asset managed by Hydration that isn’t on this table but for which the impact is in the “Impacts in Scope” section below, you are encouraged to submit it for the consideration by the project. This applies only to Critical impacts.

Hydration is the leading liquidity protocol on Polkadot. Its mission is to make DeFi efficient, simple, and unstoppable. To achieve this, Hydration unites swaps, lending and a stablecoin currency under the roof of a single, scalable appchain.

Governance compromise

Identity theft that compromises user’s assets (fungible, non-fungibles)

Unauthorized token minting

Unauthorized NFT minting

Omnipool account theft

Omnipool manipulation resulting in loss/theft of liquidity

Double spending

Direct loss of funds

Transaction/consensus manipulation

Direct theft of user’s assets (fungibles, non-fungibles)

Performing state modifying action without user’s consent such as making trades, transfers, withdrawals etc.

Subdomain takeover (only applies to main Hydration web app)

Blocking or modifying governance processes

Blocking users from accessing their funds

Theft of unclaimed yield

Stalling the chain for at least 222 minutes

Injecting/modifying the static content on the target application without Javascript (Persistent) such as HTML injection without Javascript, replacing existing text with arbitrary text, arbitrary file uploads, etc

Putting on-chain data into an unexpected state without interrupting the system or users from performing their tasks

Open redirect

Taking down the application

Injecting/modifying the static content on the target application without Javascript (Reflected) such as reflected HTML injection or loading external site data

DoS of greater than 10% but less than 30% of validator or miner nodes without shutting down the network

Rewards are distributed according to the impact of the vulnerability based on the [Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System V2.2](https://immunefi.com/immunefi-vulnerability-severity-classification-system-v2-2). This is a simplified 5-level scale, with separate scales for websites/apps, smart contracts, and blockchains/DLTs, focusing on the impact of the vulnerability reported. 

All web/app bug reports must come with a PoC with an end-effect impacting an asset-in-scope in order to be considered for a reward. All High and Critical Blockchain bug reports require a PoC to be eligible for a reward. Explanations and statements are not accepted as PoC and code are required.

The rewards for reporting Critical Blockchain vulnerabilities are capped at __10%__ of the potential economic damage, or __USD 1,000,000__ (whichever is higher). Economic damage is limited to the situation where there is a reasonable risk for existing funds on the Hydration platform. Indirect damages such as reputational damage are out of scope. The assessment of the extent of any potential economic damage is at the full discretion of the Galactic Council. However, there is a minimum reward of ___USD 15,000___ for reporting any vulnerability which can be classified under the category Critical Blockchain.

All potential vulnerabilities are assessed by the Galactic Council based on internally established criteria, taking into account the exploitability of the bug, the impact it causes, and the likelihood of the vulnerability presenting itself, which is especially factored in with bug reports requiring multiple conditions to be met that are currently not in place. 

High blockchain/DLT vulnerabilities are scaled based on internally established team criteria, taking into account the exploitability of the bug, the impact it causes, and the likelihood of the vulnerability presenting itself, which is especially factored in with bug reports requiring multiple conditions to be met that are currently not in place. However, there is a minimum reward of __USD 5,000__, rewards will be provided at the determined fair value by the team depending on these conditions, assuming that the bug report is in-scope of the bug bounty program.

With regard to Blockchain vulnerabilities, only code involving runtime pallets of Hydration and pallets developed by Galactic Council are considered as in-scope of the bug bounty program. Pallets that are not in the mainnet runtime, are not live or are under development are considered as out-of-scope of the bug bounty program. 

Payouts are handled by the __Galactic Council__ directly and are denominated in USD. However, the payouts are done in __HDX__.

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