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The last few hours have been crazy for the entire Zano team and community. So, what exactly happened? Yesterday, September 25, Zano was hit by an inflation bug connected to Gateway Addresses, a new feature that went live with HF6. Gateway Addresses are a special type of address designed primarily for services and integrations. Unlike regular Zano addresses, they have specific transparent components that make certain information publicly verifiable while preserving the privacy of the underlying Zano transactions. Zano's core transaction privacy was not compromised by this incident. The bug was identified through the monitoring and analysis of the Gateway Address activity, and the team moved quickly to investigate the issue, halt further economic activity and coordinate with the community. So what happens now? The Zano team and community have agreed to roll the chain back to a point before the affected activity. This means the inflation created by the bug will not remain on the canonical chain. For anyone who acquired ZANO that originated from the inflation, those coins will no longer exist after the rollback. The team has made a full commitment to cover legitimate losses resulting from the incident, so users who are negatively affected are not simply being left to absorb the damage themselves. Will there be an inflationary supply increase in Zano? No. Following the rollback, the community's decision is to remove the unauthorized inflation from the canonical chain. And this is important: Zano isn't a company that can simply decide this on its own. Zano is decentralized. Stakeholders, node operators, mining pools and everyone participating in the network have to converge on the same chain. The fact that the ecosystem has been able to coordinate around resolving this incident is significant. Are these tough times? Absolutely. But if there's one thing I've learned from watching this space, it's that you don't judge a project only by whether something ever goes wrong. You judge it by how the team and community respond when something does. In this crazy world of AI, crypto and rapidly evolving technology, things will go wrong. What matters is how transparently they're handled, how quickly they're fixed, and whether the ecosystem learns and comes out stronger. And honestly, the transparency we've seen from the Zano team throughout this situation has been something else. Even more encouraging, privacy leaders and projects across the space have stood by Zano during these difficult hours. We are in this together. Zano will come out of this stronger. 🦾