The developers of the Shibarium blockchain network were suspected of plagiarism

Steve, a member of the official Shiba Inu community Discord channel, discovered that the Shibarium blockchain ID (Chain ID) is the same as another blockchain ID, Rinia TestNet.

Concerns arose after code analysis of the Shibarium beta testing network revealed:maybe the developers copied the genesis file to the current Rinia testnet.

“The chain ID is the first thing any blockchain developer looks for when deploying a new network. Using an ID that already exists is simply incompetent, as not only will your chain not work properly, but anyone who tries to interact with your chain will instead be interacting with a completely different chain. It looks like the Shibarium testnet has taken the genesis file of the Rinia testnet. The name was changed, but they forgot to change the chain ID, ”Steve is indignant.

Other members of the Shiba Inu crypto community have different opinions about the actions of the Shibarium developers, but in general, the incident was recognized as a minor mistake that, with due attention, can be easily corrected.

Shiba Inu community member and crypto-security engineer Andrew Angrisan explained the similarities between the Rinia and Shibarium code in that the developers use the same open source code. In his opinion, this is a common practice when coders use each other's work to solve routine tasks:

“Both Rinia TestNet and Shibarium copied the open source code for their block scouts and were probably both lazy in their implementation. These pre-written blocks are known as Blockscout libraries and are available open source, ready to be copied and reused."

Previously, cybersecurity experts at Halborn had identified a number of critical vulnerabilities in the codebases of more than 280 open source blockchain networks, putting more than $25 billion worth of digital assets at risk.