Circle's offer of a mere $5,000 bounty for critical vulnerabilities has been ridiculed by security professionals.

CoinFeed reported on April 10th that, according to X platform content, a publicly traded payment company with a market capitalization of approximately $23 billion offered a $5,000 bounty for a critical security vulnerability before its payment chain went live. Security researcher ZachXBT, in a reply to a Circle post, stated that if a gray hat hacker chose to exploit the vulnerability themselves, he could personally use his own funds to "match" this low bounty. Several security professionals and developers criticized the bounty as too low in the comments, arguing that it was disproportionate to the company's size and the potential risks.