CertiK Is Funding Web3's Cybersecurity Defense Rails as Anthropic's Mythos Changes the Game
CertiK puts $50,000 into Ethereum's Quadratic Security Fund at exactly the moment Anthropic's Mythos rewrites the threat model for every blockchain in existence.
Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview on April, 2026, a model so capable at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that the company refused to release it to the public. In the same week, CertiK, the largest blockchain security auditor on the planet, contributed $50,000 to the Ethereum Security Quadratic Fund via Giveth, backing a community-driven initiative to fund the security projects the ecosystem needs most.
The timing was not coincidental. When the most dangerous offensive AI tool ever built proves it can compromise every operating system and every browser that Web3 infrastructure runs on top of, the question of who funds the defense stops being theoretical.
The Threat Just Changed Shape
Before Mythos, finding a zero-day vulnerability in a major operating system required years of expertise, access...
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