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What security checks are needed before a mainnet launch?

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Common practice includes internal testing, independent code audits, public testnet operation and a bug bounty. After launch, teams need incident response and more than one independent client implementation. Ethereum's bug bounty pays up to US$1,000,000 for critical findings. Ethereum documentation also warns that a bug in a client run by more than a third of nodes can stop the chain from finalising.

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During the 2016 Shanghai denial-of-service attacks, the network kept running because alternative clients did not share the dominant client's vulnerability [9].

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