7 days passed, 7 more to go But what do numbers say? - 300+ applications total - 320+ AI Auditor scans run by participants, identifying 147 verified vulnerabilities - $3.6B+ in historical exploit value unlocked And you still have plenty of time to join and grab'em prices!

Hunt's second program is live. And this is only the beginning. No pay-to-submit or pay-to-KYC. No spam. No AI slop. More researchers will receive invites in the upcoming days. P.S. If you haven't received an invite, you will soon get your chance to participate in an off-Hunt activities.

What a time to live in It's insane how just a few tools can change one's life and achieve "being a whitehat and finding crits" dream Are we entering an era of fully automated AI-bughunting which actually produces valid, non-AI slop reports?

Last week @CertiK delivered and finalized their 2nd Ethereum Foundation grant relating to formal verification in zkVMs. This time the CertiK FV team experimented with zkVM circuit correctness proofs in Verus! More below 👇

To the security researchers reading this: you deserve better than the spam queue. You know the cycle. You find a valid critical. The project disputes severity. The payout drags for months. Meanwhile open platforms bury real findings under thousands of junk submissions. That's the exact problem CertiK Hunt launched to kill. Invite-only, so signal beats volume. Programs and researchers both vetted. And the part that matters most: every program's scope and severity terms are defined up front — built on CertiK's industry-standard severity framework — so you know exactly how a finding gets classified before you commit a single hour. One week in: 300+ researcher applications, first program live, first reports already in triage. On July 15, the team behind Hunt presents at our Manhattan HQ — and takes questions face to face. So, researchers: what's the one policy that would make you commit your best hours to a platform? Drop it below. I'll put your answers in front of the team on the 15th — and tag you with what they say. Want to ask them yourself? RSVP:

Remember these names. They were the pioneers, the alpha testers, the first ones. @_blockian @infosec_us_team @csanuragjain @behroznathwani @skshadan_ @0xiamkunal9 super grateful to be able to collaborate with you all again.

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Career update folks. I'm excited to announce I'm joining @HalbornSecurity as Director of Managed Solutions! Halborn is heading into a new chapter and I can't wait to talk more about where this is going. I'll be leading managed service delivery and operations. Thrilled to be part of what's next!

It's here, it's live. A new chapter for Bug Bounties in web3 and a new opportunity for a selected group of security researchers. Next is building, iterating and paying out. We've only just started.