If you discover a security vulnerability, please email security@telcoin.org. We will acknowledge your report within 48 hours and provide a timeline for investigation.

Cross-chain bridging is notorious for security breaches, arising from numerous bridge-related exploits since developers began exploring cross-chain messaging systems to power blockchain bridges. Bridging involves translating messages between different blockchains with varying consensus mechanisms, execution environments, messaging standards, cryptographic key primitives, and programming languages. Exploits have historically taken advantage of mistakes in the translation of these data flows across protocol boundaries.

Telcoin Network exposes TEL as a native ERC20 precompile at 0x00000000000000000000000000000000000007e1. The precompile uses a unified balance model where balanceOf(account) returns the native account balance directly — no wrapping needed. It supports the full ERC20 interface plus governance-gated mint, claim, and burn functions.

For more information, refer to the TEL precompile.

Cross-chain TEL bridging is being migrated to LayerZero. Details are out of scope for this document.

ConsensusRegistry validator vector in storage is structured around a relatively low count ~700 MNOs in the world, if we onboarded them all it would be a good problem to have. This can be optimized via eg SSTORE2 or merkleization so suggestions are welcome but not a priority atm