Solana's Firedancer team found a bug AI can't patch: too many bug reports.
Jump Crypto's $1M Firedancer audit contest drew 809 reports from 162 researchers in a month. Only 127 were unique security findings, nearly half of valid submissions were duplicates, and Jump believes almost every report was found or written by an AI agent. The triage backlog peaked at 299.
The fix: every report on the new bounty platform now requires burning 1 SOL, about $100, non-refundable, duplicates included. Sections are capped at 3,000 characters. Rewards are doubled, tripled for Alpenglow bugs, through Nov. 20.
Jump's line: "AI has made finding bugs cheap, but judging them is still expensive."
A spam filter priced in SOL, and the fee goes straight to the incinerator.