Don Dodge

To confidently allocate capital onchain, allocators need a high level of assurance and due diligence. The bare minimum is security: is this vehicle secure enough to allocate to? Cyfrin Security has a proven track record of helping teams improve security posture. Next, risk: how do the protocol and its assets behave under stress, who absorbs losses, and how does the risk spread? Cyfrin Risk now helps teams answer that. Our Economic Risk Report for @LotusFi_ examines how Lotus Protocol allocates capital, interest, and losses across its connected markets.

It lives exactly where your devs live. → Works directly inside Slack, Discord, Telegram, and IDEs via MCP. → Proactive Messaging: It doesn't wait to be asked. It listens to your chats and Google Meet voice calls, surfacing security insights in real-time.

The lifecycle: 1️⃣ You open a PR. 2️⃣ Cygent auto-reviews it inline on GitHub. 3️⃣ You ping Cygent in Slack: "Hey, fix finding H-1." 4️⃣ Cygent writes the Solidity, tests it, and pushes the commit. 5️⃣ You review and merge.

Cygent fixes this. Old tools: "Here is a list of problems. Good luck." Cygent: "I found a critical MEV risk in withdraw(). I wrote the fix, verified the build, and opened a PR for you." You ping Cygent like any other coworker. Tell it what to fix, and it handles the rest.

Your newest AI security engineer has just arrived. Cygent isn't just an AI bug scanner; it learns your codebase, works alongside your team, and writes the PRs to fix them. - Finds bugs - Gets on calls - Schedules tasks - Proactive security advice All in your chat interface 🧵

Roadmap: ✅ Testnet — LIVE NOW 🔜 Prediction markets on attack periods 🔜 Prividium (private attack transactions) 🔜 AI Desktop support (no terminal needed) 🔮 Mainnet Cyfrin is 100% bootstrapping this. $3.4B in losses last year proves that what web3 is doing isn't working. Come break some contracts → battlechain.com

The lifecycle: 1. Deploy audited contracts to BattleChain with real liquidity 2. On-chain Safe Harbor protects whitehats legally 3. DAO approves contracts for attack mode 4. Whitehats, AI agents, experimentalists, open season 5. Survive? Promote to production → deploy to mainnet If you get hacked on BattleChain, that's the plan. You're on the ultimate red team platform.

BattleChain fixes this. Bug bounties: "find a vuln, write a report, we'll pay you (maybe)." BattleChain: "find a vuln, exploit it, keep 10%, return the rest." You stole the money. You sent it to the recovery address. You keep your cut. No politics. No discretionary payouts. On-chain Safe Harbor agreements make it legal.

AI is accelerating the problem on both sides. LLMs produce insecure code 45% of the time. A study of 1,000+ AI-generated Solidity contracts found severe flaws in the majority. Meanwhile, Anthropic tested AI models against 405 exploited contracts; they exploited OVER HALF. Cost per scan: $1.22. Exploit revenue doubling every 1.3 months.

Web3 lost $3.4 BILLION to crypto hacks in 2025 (@chainalysis). The Bybit exploit alone was $1.46B. North Korea stole $2B+. Why? Web3 has no staging environment. You go from testnet (fake money, no adversaries) straight to mainnet (real money, real adversaries). Nothing in between.

As of today, BattleChain testnet is LIVE. The pre-mainnet, post-testnet blockchain, where whitehats legally attack your smart contracts before they reach production. Deploy. Get attacked. Ship stronger. Here's why we built it, what it is, and how you can get involved 🧵

Vote for us in the Nominee Selection of the Security Council. Voting is open from March 22nd, 2026 - 12:32 pm UTC until March 29th, 2026 - 12:32 pm UTC. Member Election starts Apr 12, 2026. tally.xyz//gov/arbitrum/coun…

Cross-chain bridges have lost more user funds than any other category of web3 infrastructure. 🔗 Not because bridge teams are careless. Because bridge security is fundamentally harder than single-chain protocol security. Here's why. 🧵

ERC-8004 is now live on Ethereum mainnet: the standard for trustless AI agents, enabling portable identity, verifiable reputation, and cryptographic validation. We're proud to have audited the contracts alongside @Nethermind and the @ethereumfndn Security Team🛡️🙌