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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
Testnet faucet template using Nextjs, Tailwind, hCaptcha and Redis
https://0xdeploy-faucet-demo.vercel.app/
PRIVATE_KEY=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
RPC_URL=https://rpc.ankr.com/eth_goerli
COOLDOWN_HOURS=2
VALUE=1230000000000000
NEXT_PUBLIC_HCAPTCHA_SITE_KEY=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
HCAPTCHA_SECRET=0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
REDIS_URI=redis://default:key@url.com:6379

PRIVATE_KEY: The private key of the wallet issuing funds. https://metamask.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015289632
RPC_URL: RPC url of the blockchain https://www.ankr.com/rpc/
COOLDOWN_HOURS: Amount of hours users must wait to recieve funds again
VALUE: Value in smallest unit (ie: wei) https://eth-converter.com/
NEXT_PUBLIC_HCAPTCHA_SITE_KEY: Create hCaptcha account. Also known as Sitekey https://dashboard.hcaptcha.com/sites
HCAPTCHA_SECRET: Create hCpatcha account. Also known as Secret Key https://dashboard.hcaptcha.com/settings
REDIS_URI: Redis is an in-memory key-value database. https://redis.com/redis-enterprise-cloud/overview/
First, run the development server:
npm run dev
# or
yarn dev
Copy then add .env varibles
cp .env.local.example .env.local
Modern browsers have strict CORS and CORB rules, so opening a file://URI that loads hCaptcha will not work
The simplest way to use a tool such as ngrok
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Faucet Lab
We found that faucet-lab demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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