Yield Farming Reward Bug Takes Kava Blockchain Offline

The security committee for Kava Labs, the company behind a new-generation DeFi platform, has halted the chain to address an inflation bug that over distributes yield farming rewards in its latest release.

Updated Thursday, March 4, 2021, at UTC 20:53 UTC: This article was updated to include new information regarding development team recommendations for Kava node operators.

Updated Thursday, March 4, 2021, at UTC 22:05 UTC: Comments from Scott Stuart, co-founder of Kava Labs, and information about HARD protocol were added.