Boy X Highspeed (BXH) – a financial services platform for Web3 and metaverse related assets – has suffered a loss of at least $2.4 million across its operations on BSC, Avalanche, and HECO Chain.

CertiK's Security Leaderboard is the new and improved version of your one-stop-shop for due diligence.

NEAR is leading the way in game-fi by providing a technology that is uniquely suited to providing developers with the platform they need to create. This article will run through why game-fi is set to be a pillar of the web3 ecosystem, and how NEAR’s technology is geared to support it.

Wintermute has been hacked for ~$162.5m which appears to be due to a leaked (or brute forced) private key and not a smart contract vulnerability. At least ~$273,949,000 has been lost to private key compromises this year, making this one of the largest attack vectors this year. The exploiter used a privileged function with the private key leak to specify that the swap contract was the attacker controlled contract. However, Wintermute have announced that that over the counter trading and centralized exchange funds have not been affected.

Tune in to hear WOOFi Lead, Kevin, and George, from marketing discuss all things WOOFi including their vision, next steps to achieve their mission, and how security is their priority. Broadcasted September 16th, 2022

Breaking down three possible risk scenarios for the Ethereum Merge, which we'll revisit in the aftermath of this historic event.

Concerns in the Crypto/Web3 Industry and Securing a Brighter Future Very informative chat with Whale Coin Talk and GemPad, where we discussed key issues in the space, how we move forward, KYC, tokenomic structures, and more! Broadcasted September 14th, 2022

As one of the fastest growing web3 ecosystems, Avalanche continues to deploy and hone new technologies designed to enrich the web3 experience.

On Sep-08-2022 02:09:25 AM +UTC, CertiK’s Skynet detected a flashloan attack in progress on the BSC blockchain. New Free Dao ($NFD) experienced a flashloan exploit for a potential profit of ~$1.25M USD (4,481 BNB). 2,481 remains as BNB in the attacker’s wallet after they converted 2,000 BNB to 556,556 USDT. The token’s price has plummeted over 99% as a result of the attacker dumping a total of 6,838,792 NFD tokens. New Free Dao has no apparent presence on social media and is not listed on CoinMarketCap.

On Sep-06-2022 07:26:41 PM +UTC, a contract named CauldronV2 (address: 0xe767c...) suffered a loss of about ~$370K due to a vulnerability in the contract.

CertiK KYC offers risk screening solutions for influencers and agencies to take part in Web3 promotions without exposing their fans (and themselves) to unnecessary risk amid recent lawsuits.

Yesterday we heard news that Bill Murray’s personal wallet had been compromised leading to the loss of funds raised in the actor's charity NFT collection. Looking onchain, we can see that the exploiter wallet stole 112.05 wETH which was then swapped for ETH.

So far in 2022, ~$2,3 billion has been lost to various scams and exploits in the Web3 world, with a decrease in exit scams, flashloan attacks, Discord/ NFT scams compared to July's stats.

The August Stats Graphic shows data from hacks, scams, and incidents in August 2022

What is CertiK? Who is CertiK? What does CertiK do? CertiK are new minds challenging old ideas. CertiK is securing the web3 world.

This article will serve as an introduction to NEAR Protocol, unpack some of the innovations of its underlying technology, and underscore the importance of securing the NEAR ecosystem with a NEAR smart-contract audit.

This article will take you through some of the most exciting developments in the web3 space today, and explain how Avalanche is designed to meet their specific needs and capacities.

The FBI issued a Public Service Announcement regarding the rise of cyber hacks on DeFi platforms. Here are the key takeaways from the announcement on how investors can better protect themselves when engaging with DeFi platforms.

The Avalanche Infographic shows the stats of Avalanche's market cap, monthly active users, and etc.

This blog post will take you through the history of the scalability problem, look at some of the various attempts to solve it, and spotlight how Avalanche has resolved it through its innovative use of subnets.

SudoRare, a self proclaimed NFT AMM, committed an exit scam within 24 hours of deploying their smart contract that resulted in the loss of $852k.

Watch and Listen as Connie Lam, Head of Shield at CertiK discusses How to Secure the Web3 World. 2 minute recap.

We're talking about #NEAR Listen and learn from our roundtable discussion with Mintbase, FewandFarNFT, Metamon, & MIND Games Broadcasted August 17th, 2022

Get ready because we're coming at you with our Podcast SafeSpace #2: Let's Talk #DAO! Co-hosted by: CertiK & SnowCone DAO. Broadcasted: August 16th, 2022

For anyone looking to get a sense of the scale of innovation that Avalanche enables, understanding its novel solution to achieving consensus is a good place to start. this blog post will take you through one of the biggest innovations that Avalanche’s technology offers, its consensus mechanism, contextualizing it within the history of the solutions to achieving consensus to show how it solves many of the limitations of the prior art.

Listen and Learn from our AMA Twitter Spaces with NEAR Insider x CertiK as we discuss analyzing blockchain protocols and defi projects. Broadcasted 08.15.22

We're excited to announce our Twitter Spaces with GameFi, Dvision Network, League of Kingdoms.

Watch and Listen as Connie Lam, Head of Shield at CertiK discusses How to Secure the Web3 World. Avalanche Hacks | FE Seoul is an in-person community event, Friday, August 12, in Seoul, right before the Avalanche Andretti Formula E race weekend. ‍Avalanche Hacks is an event series for Web3 creators working on decentralized solutions digitizing all the world's assets. At Avalanche Hacks, meet fellow Avalanche creators, learn from industry experts, and turn your ideas into reality. Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality. Avalanche is blazingly fast, low cost, and eco-friendly. Any smart contract-enabled application can outperform its competition by deploying on Avalanche. Don’t believe it? Try an app on Avalanche today.

We are happy to be hosting a Twitter Spaces with Aurigami and Risk DAO. We will discuss Aurigami's Risk Assessment with Risk DAO, NEAR Protocol, and more!

Curve Finance was compromised on August 9, 2022 for approximately ~$612K in total loss due to a cloned malicious site