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Smart Contract Auditor - Competing in Competitive Audits

Joined January 2023
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4th place finish on my 2nd ever contest! Mainly luck because no one else looked at emits, but I'll take it 😅
🏆 @ZivoeFinance Audit Contest Results 🏆 4. @BiasedMerc - $2,512.23 5. @IronsideSec - $1,909.91 6. @armormadeofwoe - $1,755.64 7. SilverChariot - $1,346.95 8. 0xpiken - $1,341.16 9. @drynooo - $1,310.51 10. AllTooWell - $1,094.13
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Thank you to anonymous donor 0x5cB...52A49 for contributing 25 ETH to Alexey's legal defense on Juicebox. With ~ 53 ETH ($140k) raised so far, your generosity brings us closer to our goal of 750k-1M needed to fund Alexey's appeal. Open source is not a crime. Free Alexey.
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SR: "Man, I wonder why escalations / pjqa take so long." Also SR:
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The harder I work, the luckier I get
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SEAL recently conducted a Wargame with @Optimism and @base to test their response to a simulated vulnerability in bridge withdrawals. You can read more about @coinbase's experience on their blog. coinbase.com/blog/strengthen…
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“A Worthy Fight” A free limited-time mint 🦄 Now available on Zora
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Someone needs to do an interview with @xiaoming90. I want to hear his auditing process for math.. He seems to be one of the best at finding math vulnerabilities
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Grats @dankrad @peter_szilagyi you got me to interrupt my work on EIPs and make a twitter response that turned into an unscheduled poast 😀 vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
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Sad news
Tornado Cash dev ruled liable for all illicit use, despite no ability to prevent it ‼️ We'll break down both the ruling itself and the craziness of the precedent set here by the case against Alex Pertsev, a developer and co-founder of the @TornadoCash project 🧵
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Last night's 20 million hack of Sonne was more layered than just an empty market bug. The real attack innovation was at the governance layer. If you are using a multisig + timelock governance, you need to check that are not vulnerable! Here's how it worked. 🧵 1/8
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Think you know this top Pro League auditor? Be the first to get it right + like and RT to get a box of legendary C4 merch (usually only available IRL, and even then it’s hard to get) Third time’s the charm 🤞
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Auditing tip of the day: don't overlook event emissions. For example, in this finding from the @ZivoeFinance contest at @sherlockdefi the emission references wrong array and tries to read its values. This results in an out of bound exception. Props to @BiasedMerc and @dian_ivanov_ for finding it. github.com/sherlock-audit/20…
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Replying to @profitmaxi11
People should utilize keyword searches on X/Twitter as a basic form of due diligence before investing.
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Very interesting data for the testing of the highest TVL protocols in DeFi at the moment. There is a protocol with $8B in TVL that has no tests whatsoever and just 2 old audits. Source: github.com/54thMass/Research…
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Me after my wife asks how our crypto portfolio is doing today
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Why are crypto people like this 😭 $1k in bank but $1M on pepe longs 🤯
Just woke up and realised I got liquidated overnight. I was 3x long PEPE. I lost everything I had. I don't even have $1000 in my bank account but had $1M in binance. I have been in crypto since 2017. Today I lost everything. Feel like doing suicide 😭😭 $PEPE $BTC
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My list of learning resources to go over keeps getting bigger, faster than I can go through it 🥲
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Not sure what I need to do to help defend Uniswap against the SEC. But I’m ready. Also it feels like the SEC is addicted to taking big fat Ls. There is no way they win if they take action.
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