CertiK Launches Invite Only Hunt Platform for Elite Security Researchers
Web3 projects lost $482 million to hacks and scams in the first quarter of 2026 across 44 separate incidents, according to blockchain security firm Hacken, a steep decline from the $2 billion lost in the same quarter a year earlier.
The improvement is real, but it is not the whole truth. Smart contract exploits, the category of bug that a security audit or a bug bounty program is built to catch, accounted for just $86.2 million of that total, 18 percent. Phishing and social engineering took $306 million. Compromised keys and cloud infrastructure took another $71.9 million. The two attack surfaces that no code audit touches now cause five times more damage than the one that every code audit is designed to prevent.
CertiK is launching its newest product directly into that gap. The Web3 security firm announced CertiK Hunton July 1, 2026, an invite-only platform where blockchain projects...
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