Modular Rollup Protocol Cartesi has introduced honeypot v2 to mainnet, now protected by the new Permissionless Refereed Championships (PRT) anti-fraud system.
This upgrade significantly advances Cartesi’s trustless rollup architecture by introducing a deposit and refund mechanism that thwarts delay attacks while providing partial refunds to honest verifiers.
This upgrade places Cartesi in Stage 2 classification under L2BEAT’s updated framework, reflecting its commitment to decentralized security and transparent verification.
Honeypot is Cartesi’s cybersecurity-inspired challenge application based on the concept of a honeypot – an intentionally vulnerable system used to attract attackers and study their methods.
The app, released two years ago, turns rollup stress tests into community-driven hacking contests that help validate Cartesi’s technical robustness in real-time.
Moving from authoritative node to active participation
The introduction of the PRT anti-fraud system and upgraded node architecture enables full participation in the app chain.
Previous honeypots operated on an authoritative consensus model, where a single node decided on the result of a computation, and other nodes simply replicated the result of the computation. Honeypot v2 eliminates this centralizing bottleneck, allowing any participant to verify calculations and contest fraudulent results.
This decentralized validation model represents an important step towards scalable and trustless rollups, increasing security assurance across the Cartesi ecosystem.
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