"The Open Source Achilles' Heel: The Nofx Project with 9000 Stars in 2 Months and its Hacker Gate, Internal Strife Gate, and Open Source Gate" (Author @wquguru) This article uses Nofx as a case study to review how an AI automated trading open-source project rapidly gained nearly 9000 GitHub Stars in two months and became embroiled in security vulnerability disclosures, team equity disputes, and open-source protocol controversies. The article organizes the events based on public information, analyzes the security risks disclosed by SlowMist, the legal conflicts among core members, and the open-source compliance issues triggered by the shift from MIT to AGPL, highlighting that this incident reflects the systemic risks faced by Web3 open-source projects in terms of security, governance, compliance, and commercialization boundaries. Read the full article:
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"The Open Source Achilles' Heel: The Nofx Project with 9000 Stars in 2 Months and its Hacker Gate, Internal Strife Gate, and Open Source Gate" (Author @wquguru) This article uses Nofx as a case study to review how an AI automated trading open-source project rapidly gained nearly 9000 GitHub Stars in two months and became embroiled in security vulnerability disclosures, team equity disputes, and open-source protocol controversies. The article organizes the events based on public information, analyzes the security risks disclosed by SlowMist, the legal conflicts among core members, and the open-source compliance issues triggered by the shift from MIT to AGPL, highlighting that this incident reflects the systemic risks faced by Web3 open-source projects in terms of security, governance, compliance, and commercialization boundaries. Read the full article: