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Introducing DualDefense: Our New Approach To Blockchain Security
Announcing DualDefense—a new service bundle that merges Hacken’s professional audits with HackenProof’s crowdsourced security assessments.
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Ethical Hacking In Action: How To Steal $1.1M From A DeFi Smart Contract
A case study of ethical hacking detailing how Hacken's L1 Researcher and Auditor, Bartosz Barwikowski, uncovered a deeply hidden bug in Weft Finance's smart contract, exploited it to extract $1.1 million in assets (on a mainnet ledger copy) and ultimately helped secure the platform, leading him to c
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Inside Lazarus Group: Analyzing North Korea's Most Infamous Crypto Hacks
Who is Lazarus? Discover how North Korea's hacking group uses every malicious tactic to steal your digital assets.
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Securing RWAs: Smart Contract Audits For re.al, Tangible And Pearl
Securing RWAs: Hacken Completes Audits for re.al, Tangible, and Pearl. Read more in this case study.
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Honeypot Crypto Scam Techniques Explained: A Comprehensive Guide
The blockchain world faces numerous security threats that emerge at an alarming rate and adapt to new and evolving environments. Among these, the honeypot scam is a particularly popular form of fraud. In February 2024, a single cybercriminal executed multiple honeypot scams, successfully stealing approximately $3.2 million from victims.
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Hacken Celebrates 7 Years: Message from CEO, CTF Challenge, Flash Pools Unveiled
A Message from CEO, Dyma Budorin Dear Hacken Friends, Today, we celebrate a momentous occasion – Hacken's 7th anniversary. Not many in the crypto space achieve this longevity, but Hacken has not just grown as a company; we have been a major player in making Web3 safer. In 2017,
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Lightning Network: Everything You Need To Know
Ever since the existence of Bitcoin, a digital innovation world has been enabled, and digital currencies and technological solutions have appeared based on decentralized and peer-to-peer principles. Bitcoin was envisioned for use in payments, but as it grew, issues about scalability also increased to a large extent. Scalability issues in
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Telos Signs MOU with Hacken For Enhancing Real-Time Security
Hacken and the Telos Foundation are excited to announce a collaboration to elevate security standards within the Telos blockchain ecosystem. This collaboration, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), leverages Hacken’s advanced Extractor monitoring system to provide real-time security for Telos EVM. UPDATE: Extractor Integration Progress As part of
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Ethereum Enterprise Alliance (EEA) Introduces The First Standard for DeFi Protocols
The EEA DeFi Risk Assessment Guidelines is a comprehensive list of risks and mitigation strategies for DeFi protocols, developed collaboratively by leaders from Hacken, OpenZeppelin, Consensys, EY, CertiK, Quantstamp, and other key industry players.
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Understanding EigenLayer & Ethereum's Restaking
Blockchains have emerged as independent ecosystems of global financial activity. Ensuring the blockchains' availability, validity, and security are the consensus mechanisms that extend to the transactional foundations within the blocks of the blockchain. For PoS, which has become the most popular consensus mechanism, the amount of staked capital is
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Hacken Is Selected for EU Sandbox 2nd Cohort
BREAKING: Hacken has been selected as one of only 20 pioneering projects for the second cohort of the European Blockchain Sandbox. The sandbox is the EU's playground for blockchain innovation, fostering regulatory dialogues and legal certainty for distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions across sectors. At Hacken, we lead
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Securing Merkle Tree in OpenZeppelin's MerkleProof.sol Library
**Role of a Merkle Tree** A Merkle Tree is a data structure used in blockchain to ensure data integrity and efficient verification. Read how Hacken auditors joined the effort to secure OpenZeppelin’s MerkleProof.sol library.