I'm joining @FirepanHQ as one-third of the founding team, here’s why:
Since 2020, my faith in DeFi’s core “code is law” philosophy has smashed hard against the reality of increasingly sophisticated hacks and exploits. As AI coding tools whoosh past the singularity, the attack surface has been growing faster than our ability to defend it.
Last year this hit too close to home. Before deploying a boilerplate rewards claim contract for a personal project (too small to justify a six-figure audit,) I asked several security-minded colleagues to review my code before launch. Only one person caught a glaring access control vulnerability left toggled incorrectly from a testnet deployment, and he found it in minutes thanks to AI security tooling he’d been building.
Many conversations later, we’re proud to release this to builders as FirePan.
FirePan is an AI-native security platform that monitors your smart contracts continuously. Every push. Every pull request. Every new attack vector uncovered sharpens our capability for defense.
As AI accelerates the threat landscape exponentially, our best defense is getting advanced AI security tooling into the hands of builders. We’ll be publishing much more research on this subject in coming weeks, including details on critical vulnerabilities we’ve found for early partners.
If you’re shipping anything onchain, try running a free surface scan on your repo at firepan.com and share your feedback with us.
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