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NBA Pauses Minting of The Association NFT Collections After Spotting Serious Vunerability
The National Basketball Association (NBA) revealed pausing minting of its new non-fungible token collection, dubbed:
- The Association — after a major loophole was detected by BlockSec after it recognized the issues with the smart contract that triggered the “Allow List” supply to sell out prematurely
The Flaw
- Blockchain security firm BlockSec has identified a serious vulnerability that could have allowed a malicious entity to mint a large number of NFTs, without paying any tokens.
- The main reason behind the flaw is the incorrect use of signature verification
- This essentially means that the contract fails to ensure that the signature can only be used by the user (and only the user) once.
The NFT Collection
- 18,000 non-fungible tokens representing all 240 assigned NBA players
- 75 NFTs are allocated randomly using Chainlink VRF to each player from the 16…