Aidan Kaiser

A cool insight into the review/auditing process w/ the folks at @GuardianAudits. This example was not from the Baseline code, but we got similar depth of review. One maybe undervalued part of their audits is that their teams write complete invariant test suites with state of the art tools (echidna + medusa atm) which you can bring into your repo & integrate with your development process. Not only that, but studying their invariant tests can improve your skills as a smart contract/protocol dev and teach you new perspectives on how to test + what needs to be tested. By running their invariants in our development suites, we have found bugs that we never would have found otherwise. I have no doubt in my mind @0xOwenThurm, @giraffe0x, and the rest of the team at Guardian will play a key role in the ultimate success of DeFi and crypto. They are pioneering a standard in testing/auditing that we will one day look back and take for granted as the "obvious" way to do things. My utmost respect to these devs, and auditors/security researchers in general, for helping secure our space and giving us the tools, knowledge, and confidence to pioneer innovative protocols. Thank you.

Introducing Arc, the home for stablecoin finance. @Arc is an open Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built to drive the next chapter of financial innovation powered by stablecoins. Designed to provide an enterprise-grade foundation for payments, FX, and capital markets, Arc delivers the performance, reliability, and liquidity builders need to meet global financial demands. Arc features: ✅ USDC as native gas ✅ Built-in FX engine ✅ Deterministic sub-second finality ✅ Opt-in privacy ✅ Full Circle platform integration Open, composable, and EVM-compatible, Arc is designed to interoperate seamlessly with the broader multichain ecosystem. As part of our mission to advance blockchain infrastructure, we're excited to welcome the Malachite team and IP from @informalinc to Circle. Arc is built on Malachite’s high-performance consensus engine. In line with our commitment to open-source development, the core software for Arc will be released under a permissive license, enabling the broader developer community to contribute, extend, and build on top. Serving as foundational infrastructure for the internet, Arc will enable 24/7 global settlement that’s as seamless and native as messaging on the web. Arc will enter private testnet in the coming weeks, with public testnet expected this fall. Read the litepaper: arcnetwork.xyz/litepaper Let’s build the new internet financial system together: circle.com/blog/introduci…

The first Dev roadmap newsletter was released internally at Guardian today. Needless to say there’s a lot we’re working on and I’m more bullish than ever on the future for Web3 security. S/o to @aidank1234 🫡

Today, auditors put their money where their mouth is. Announcing, Guardian Defender. → Post-audit bounty coverage, funded by Guardian. → 30-day contest to find critical bugs in the Guardian-secured codebase. The first $100,000 Defender contest with @ethena is live!