A sequence of occasions erupted within the official Shiba Inu Discord on March 17 when a top-ranked group member, Steve, alleged that the Shibarium layer-2 beta testnet and the Rinia testnet, an present blockchain, had similar chain IDs.
“So why is it that it seems like shibarium take a look at web has taken rinia testnet genesis file Modified the title from renia However forgot to alter the chain ID Rinia has been stay and owned that chain Id since Feb. And was deliberate in December.”
Steve additionally alleged that “there’s no method for it to be taken over with out shytoshi and kaal [Shiba Inu developers] particularly having coms with him and asking him to reboot (tricking him) so they might take his genesis file and steal his work.” To which Kaal responded:
“Dispelling some FUD ever since we did the Alpha community deployment few chain IDs have been picked randomly- 417(Alpha), 517(Staging), 917(pre-pod/beta) and these chain weren’t registered anyplace at the moment, I made a mistake to not recheck when the puppynet community was launched.”
Kaal then stated that “with out stepping into any fist fights,” a brand new model of the Shibraium beta community with a brand new chain ID could be deployed. Nevertheless, the incident intensified later within the day when Steve raised one other concern, this time evaluating two screenshots to point out the alleged similarity between the Shibarium alpha testnet and Polygon’s Mumbai testnet:
“Shibarium GitHub reveals the shibarium alpha take a look at is only a 100% copy of Mumbai polygon.”
On the time of publication, Shiba Inu (SHIB) is down 4.65% over the previous 24 hours to commerce at $0.00001047. Cointelegraph has not independently verified the allegations nor responses introduced by the Shiba group.
