Fireside Chat with Dyma Budorin
summary
Hacken audits smart contracts, exchanges and DeFi with a 130-person team focused on manual line-by-line review (about 300 lines per auditor per day) plus automated scans and formal verification for the hardest cases. The company runs a bug-bounty community of 40,000 ethical hackers, has helped 2,000+ projects, and uncovers critical flaws like a mint-vulnerability in Near or issues that enabled the $624M Ronin bridge hack discovered six days later, which pushes development of on-chain monitoring tools and cautious AI assistance.
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- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:11What Hacken does
- 2:39Founding story of Hacken
- 4:05Early business model shift
- 5:08Experiences with major hacks
- 7:40Approach to holistic audits
- 9:04Smart contract audit process
- 10:11Role of ethical hackers
- 11:39Future with tighter regulation
- 14:30AI in security audits
- 16:20Quantum computing threat
- 17:47Closing remarks
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