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With the year ending, here's my C4 stats for 2023. Thanks @code4rena for the opportunity! It has been a rewarding experience while securing the web3 ecosystem. I am ready to achieve more for web3 security in 2024! #Code4renaWrapped

Code4rena will run audit contests for free, as public goods. 100% of funds from sponsors will go directly to auditors and judges. We won't take any cut. Why? 1. Competitions are commodities. They're CRUD apps. Why should builders pay premium for a website just to submit bugs? Especially smaller teams without VC funding. 2. Everyone deserves competitions. We tell all our clients to get a competition after their audit. That's because competitions simulate real world conditions, where there's thousands of eyes on a protocol. We want to make competitions as affordable as possible so everyone can get one. 3. It benefits our wardens. In 2021, we invented the competition format. We're still the platform with the largest auditor pool (10,000+ registered). Not only should builders have access to the best security talent, we believe auditors should have opportunities to work with great projects. Opening up our platform benefits our wardens. How will you afford this? Zellic is a profitable business. We make money doing traditional private audits through Zellic and Zenith. This benefits us because: (1) our clients are more secure after they run contests, and (2) Code4rena is a talent pipeline for Zenith. Will you stop maintaining the platform? Of course not. Since we acquired Code4rena, we've shipped several features and have several more already underway. C4 has a dedicated dev team that we're fully committed to. Besides, many of our clients at Zellic use C4. We're incentivized to make sure the platform works well. It's just that now we're allowing everyone to benefit from our investments in Code4rena. In conclusion: Run a contest on Code4rena! We won't take a cut, your prizes will go directly to wardens and judges. For full details, check out our blog post here: zellic.io/blog/code4rena…

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Congrats on the launch @zenith256 @bytes032 ! 🔥

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@0xT1MOH @aviggiano Great to see you around too! 🫡

@peak_bolt @aviggiano Nice to see you again Peakbolt!

my goal for 2025 is to spend less time shitposting and shitreading on X and more time doing actual research contrary to the current trend, I haven't learned anything new from AI agents (yet?) or "yappers" who post every day it's very hard to learn meaningful things by "passing time" on this site, which is my default app in between daily activities, like waiting for an Uber, after waking up, standing in line, etc. I feel like the signal-to-noise ratio is lowering by the day. Even smart people are forced to post a lot to stay relevant (by the force of the algorithm), which means you only find "alpha" < 10% of the time so this year I'll be removing X from my phone and focusing on research papers instead. Maybe every now and then, I'll post about cool stuff that I learn to help others. To combat FOMO, I'll become a paid subscriber on newsletters that I like so that they don't die cheers

@milotruck @SpearbitDAO 👑

✅ Become a @SpearbitDAO LSR Really enjoyed working with all the talented researchers at Spearbit throughout the past year Will strive to work harder and become better in 2025

@gjaldon @sherlockdefi 💪💪💪

Proud to share that I’m now a Senior Watson @sherlockdefi! 💪🔥🙏🏼 It took me 2 contests to get here for my account but it took grinding way more audits to get to this point. A great milestone for my career but I hope to accomplish so much more 🔥🦀

@gjaldon @sherlockdefi Awesome win ser! 💪

Won my 1st @sherlockdefi contest on a Rust/CosmWasm codebase. This was my 1st Rust audit and only did half the contest period so happy with the result 🎉 Too bad my solo High was downgraded to M by an undocumented rule. Hope the rules/judging improve 🙏🏼 Learned a ton 🧠

@opensensepw @ethereum Great news! 👏 Congrats!

Glad to see SR being rewarded in the ZKSync airdrop. Do check it out!

@deadrosesxyz @SpearbitDAO Congrats! 👏

Officially an LSR at @SpearbitDAO 😎

@CarrotSmuggler @code4rena Awesome work fren! 💪

Two top 5 finishes today. Grinding out the @code4rena leaderboard

@KoolexC Congrats man!

Happy to get this result, If you are building a protocol on Solana and need a second look at the code, My DM is always open. Lavarage offers margin trading on SPOT instruments, is permissionless and non-custodial. #SolanaNetwork #defi #rust

@HollaWaldfee100 @__alexxander_ 💪 impressive!

After a couple of busy months with private audits I decided it's time for a contest again. I teamed up with @__alexxander_ , very happy with the result🔥

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@DegenShaker All the best ser! 💪

Personal update: Like many others in the space I've now quit my Web2 job to pursue Web3 Security as a dedicated path. It's pretty terrifying to be honest but when I reflect on the past year, since I began in this space - I've been able to achieve significant wins (both academically and financially) with the support of friends I've met along the way in servers like @thereachlabs and on platforms such as @code4rena. I'm looking forward to dedicating 100% of my time, energy and intellectual capital into strengthening my weaker technical skill areas and becoming the complete package this year. Excellent quality and unquestionable integrity are the core brands I have built my rep on so far in this space, that will not change going forward.

@windhustler @tapiocadao Great job sir! 💪

@CarrotSmuggler @code4rena Congrats! You did great

Finally a contest win xd @code4rena