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by astrange 1592 days ago
If it's a library normally you'd share a security patch with important customers privately, if they're otherwise going to lose $300 million. I thought this was the service's own repo though.
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Smart Contracts always have their source openly available on the chain, so it’s not that easy
But that's also the executable form of it - just patch it first, and then people can't hack it when they see fixes land in the +1 release somewhere else.
I could be wrong but I believe only the compiled machine code is on-chain, you don't have to publish the source

this just happens to be a project that does