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As I promised to highlight high commitment and huge effort, I want to thank @zuhaib44 for his incredible work during Solana Audit Arena Week One collaborative audit. He submitted 6 issues and provided judgments on all 40+ interesting vulnerabilities in the audit. I’m really happy to help people like him get recognized and show up. Please repost this and follow him if you’re interested in Solana security! github.com/Frankcastleaud…

One of the things that's made me happiest these past few months is a shift in mindset. I went from being 100% focused on my own work to actually mentoring talented security researchers who have the skills but struggle to show them and land real audit work. I've been cutting into my own time to build things that help them: - Building the Solana Audit Arena so good researchers get a real stage to compete and shine. - Writing technical articles and posts to help people sharpen their skills. - Collecting and publishing learning resources on X and my blog. - Giving personal advice and guidance to people who actually need it. One of the results I'm most proud of is @zuhaib44, who really made it and broke into Solana security Auditing. If you have the skills but feel invisible, this space has more room for you than it seems.

The next 60 ETHSecurity Badge holders have been selected using a new rubric updated by the applicants themselves! Thank you to the people who chatted with the bot, your refinement of the rubric is the first DAO experiment we have tested. And thank you to @bonfiresai for making amazing DAO tooling!

One of our former students @gskwxyz, is building in public. He just shipped a working devnet build for his @solana-native project @riverboat_x and is now moving toward mainnet. The codebase is written in native @Solana with Rust tests, and he is looking for sharp eyes on it before the next step. Everyone who came through past Rektoff cohorts with strong results, please make sure to tap in. Also, if you are into breaking things, reviewing early-stage infra, or just want to help a fellow builder put the system under pressure, this is a good place for all @solana_devs to jump in.