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Summary

In August 2026, Ravencoin's mainnet suffered a critical consensus vulnerability in its KAWPOW proof-of-work algorithm that allowed attackers to produce invalid blocks at a fraction of normal mining cost, beginning at block height 4,487,776 on August 7, 2026. Majority mining pools took unilateral control of the recovery process, issuing a patch without the core development team and threatening a deep three-day blockchain reorganization that would reverse all transactions since block 4,487,775. The incident — the network's third known consensus or supply failure — triggered an approximately 19-20% price crash, exchange-wide suspension of RVN transfers, and raised acute governance concerns about the project's effectively inactive development team.

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□Bitget
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♦Ravencoin (RVN)♦Bitcoin62
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Timeline(8 events)

2019

Raptoreum discovers asset issuance bugs in Ravencoin — the first known externally-identified consensus-level vulnerability (approximate year; precise date not confirmed in available sources).

Cryip.co — Ravencoin's Fix for Its Third Consensus Failure Is Coming From a Mining Pool

2 July 2020

Ravencoin discloses that hackers minted approximately 301.8-315 million counterfeit RVN tokens (~1.5% of maximum supply, worth ~$5.7M) by exploiting a coinbase block reward logic flaw. CryptoScope credited with discovery.

CoinTelegraph — Vulnerability in Ravencoin Creates Extra 1.5% of Maximum Supply for Hackers

4 July 2020

Ravencoin enforces inflation exploit patch at block 1,304,352, closing the 2020 supply inflation vulnerability.

CryptoPotato — Hackers Exploit Vulnerability in Ravencoin Protocol to Mint 315 Million Fake RVN Coins

7 August 2026

First confirmed exploitation of KAWPOW nHeight block header validation flaw at block height 4,487,776 at 15:44:01 UTC. Attackers begin producing invalid blocks at minimal cost. Multiple additional parties alleged to have subsequently exploited the same flaw.

Project Raven / Ravencoin official notice on X

10 August 2026

Ravencoin issues public network notice disclosing the consensus vulnerability. Exchanges are advised to suspend RVN deposits and withdrawals. Block 4,487,775 established as the last safe checkpoint. Three-day delay between first exploit and public disclosure.

Ravencoin Falls 18% as Exchanges Suspend RVN Transfers — CryptoTimes

10 August 2026

Mining pools 2Miners and RavenMiner announce they are mining an alternative chain from block 4,487,775, excluding all exploited blocks. The pools decline the core team's request for a shallower, less disruptive recovery point.

Ravencoin Faces Deep Reorg Risk After Consensus Bug Exploited — Metaverse Post

11 August 2026

RVN price falls approximately 18-20% to ~$0.00287-$0.00292, reaching record lows. Trading volume spikes ~1,118%. Upbit, Bitget, and Bitvavo confirm suspension of RVN transfers. Emergency patch v4.6.1.1-hf1 released by 2Miners — not the Ravencoin core team — becomes the only available fix.

Decrypt — Ravencoin Crashes 20% as Critical Exploit Threatens to Rollback Network

11 August 2026

Reporting notes upstream Ravencoin development is effectively inactive; no core-team patch published. A secondary asset transfer quantity overflow bug remains unpatched in any released software version.

Ravencoin's Fix for Its Third Consensus Failure Is Coming From a Mining Pool, Not Its Own Team — Cryip.co
Provenance & Audit Trail
Anchored on SolanaVerify on-chain12 Wayback Archives

Decision Log

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (3 events). 12 of 14 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

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model: claude-sonnet-4-6

generated: 8/12/2026, 11:09:15 PM

last updated: 8/25/2026, 6:04:07 PM

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