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ZORA V3 Community Audits Now Open
January 28th, 2022
Today, the ZORA Core team is releasing the first module proposal available for a community review – Offers v1.0. This module aims to provide on-chain liquidity for NFTs via escrowed buy orders. Using this module, any potential buyer will be able to make an offer for any valid ERC-721 on Ethereum.
Disclosure: AsksV1.1 Deployed to Fix Vulnerability
January 25th, 2022
At approximately 3:20 PM EST on January 24 2022, the 0x Protocol team reached out privately and directly to disclose a vulnerability in ZORA’s AsksV1 module. Importantly, no user funds have been lost and no users are at immediate risk of losing funds. However, ZORA identified up to 31 users who have the potential to be at risk in the future. This report outlines the vulnerability, the steps we’ve taken to mitigate, and the timeline of events as they unfolded.
May 28th, 2021
With the release of Auction House, Zora is working to move ownership from centralized auction houses to decentralized auction houses. However, the smart contracts are only the first piece of the puzzle, and we're setting out to fill in the blueprints for anyone to spin up and remix their own auction house experience.
May 12th, 2021
In recent months, NFTs have gone through a moment of cultural zeitgeist, commanding the attention and adoption of creators and communities all over the internet. Still in its infancy, the NFT ecosystem is mostly dominated by a small number of closed marketplaces—crypto middlemen and web3 gatekeepers that have launched closed-source systems on public blockchains.