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[FESTIFY @FestifyClub]

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[Avalanche Foundation 🔺 @AvalancheFDN]

Retro9000 C-Chain Round 4 introduces a new three-tier verification system that influences how projects score on the leaderboard.

Get Verified. Directly impact a project's score.

Here is everything you need to know ⤵️

[A3R4H4M @abrahamonchain]

The Reality of Becoming a Top 1% Security Researcher

Most people think it's about intelligence.

It's not.

It's about surviving years of confusion, rejection, self doubt, and failure long enough to become dangerous.

Here's what nobody tells you

Let's dive in

➪ The internet only shows the wins.

You see:

➣ Accepted bug bounties

➣ Audit reports

➣ Conference talks

➣ Hall of Fame achievements

➣ Research publications

You don't see:

➣ 100+ rejected findings

➣ Failed exploit attempts

➣ Weeks spent understanding one vulnerability

➣ Thousands of lines of code read for nothing

Success is visible.

The struggle isn't.

➪ Security research will make you feel stupid.

A lot.

You'll open a protocol and understand absolutely nothing.

You'll read a Solidity function 20 times.

You'll stare at an exploit writeup for hours.

And you'll wonder if everyone else is smarter than you.

They're not.

They've just been confused longer.

➪ One lesson I learned:

Feeling lost is not a sign you're failing.

It's usually a sign you're learning.

The best researchers aren't the ones who avoid confusion.

They're the ones who stay with it long enough for understanding to emerge.

➪ Nobody talks about the 3 AM reality.

The monitor glow.

The cold coffee.

The failed PoC.

The endless transaction traces.

The attack path that doesn't work.

Then doesn't work again.

Then finally works.

The world sees the report.

You experience the thousand failures before it.

➪ Security research is mostly being wrong repeatedly until you're finally right.

That's the job.

Not glamour.

Not recognition.

Investigation.

➪ Most people don't fail because they lack talent.

They fail because they quit too early.

The learning curve is brutal.

Progress feels invisible.

Validation is rare.

Rewards are delayed.

So people leave.

The few who stay become dangerous.

➪ Consistency beats talent more often than people want to admit.

Read code every day.

Study exploits every week.

Write research publicly.

Repeat.

Small efforts compound.

➪ The most underrated security skill isn't intelligence.

It's curiosity.

Elite researchers ask questions longer than everyone else.

Why is this here?

Why is this unchecked?

Why did this exploit work?

Why did nobody notice?

Curiosity uncovers vulnerabilities.

➪ Most vulnerabilities hide inside assumptions.

Attackers know this.

Researchers should too.

➪ Another uncomfortable truth:

Security research is mostly pattern recognition.

The best auditors don't magically spot bugs.

They've simply studied enough failures to recognize familiar attack surfaces.

Experience is pattern recognition in disguise.

➪ Want to improve faster?

Study:

➣ Historical hacks

➣ Audit reports

➣ Post mortems

➣ Exploit writeups

➣ Attacker behavior

Every exploit teaches a lesson.

Every lesson becomes intuition.

➪ Let's talk about the emotional cost.

Nobody warns you about this part.

Security can be lonely.

You miss events.

You skip outings.

You spend weekends reading code.

Sometimes you become obsessed.

And sometimes that obsession is exhausting.

➪ Then imposter syndrome arrives.

You compare yourself to famous auditors.

Respected researchers.

Top bug bounty hunters.

You feel behind.

Here's the truth:

Even experts feel this way.

They just keep moving anyway.

➪ Top 1% doesn't mean:

➣ Knowing everything

➣ Finding every bug

➣ Never making mistakes

➣ Being a genius

Top 1% means:

➣ Showing up consistently

➣ Learning relentlessly

➣ Staying curious

➣ Refusing to quit

➪ If I could give one piece of advice to aspiring blockchain security researchers:

Stop chasing shortcuts.

Read code.

Study exploits.

Think like attackers.

Build things.

Break things.

Write about what you learn.

Depth beats hype.

Every time.

➪ One day people will see your audit reports, findings, and achievements.

They'll assume you were naturally gifted.

They won't see:

➣ The confusion

➣ The failures

➣ The rejected reports

➣ The late nights

➣ The moments you almost quit

But that's the reality of becoming a top 1% security researcher.

Not brilliance.

Persistence.

➪ The researchers who change the industry are rarely the smartest people in the room.

They're the ones who refused to leave the room.

If you're building a career in Smart Contract Security, Blockchain Security, or Web3 Security:

Keep going.

Your future expertise is being built in today's confusion.

Repost if you're on the journey.

[Avalanche France 🔺 @avalanche_fr]

Les candidatures pour rejoindre Team1 sont ouvertes !

Team1 est une communauté mondiale qui aide les gens à apprendre, build et grandir sur Avalanche.

Les candidatures sont maintenant ouvertes avec plus de 2000 candidats dès la première semaine.

Postulez dès maintenant 👇🇫🇷

[Avalanche Team1 @AvaxTeam1]

Powered by @avax 🔺

[FESTIFY @FestifyClub]

Anyone can call winnerShare(), just deposit any amount so mine > 0.
The formula:
(pot × mine) / 10 ether
If pot = 200 ETH and mine is crafted right → you get back 200 ETH.
The contract trusts address(this).balance as the pot.
That number? The attacker controls it.
One small deposit. Full pot drained. 💀

[FESTIFY @FestifyClub]

@immunefi I love this part of the writing!
"If you believe you can’t, you’re right.
If you believe you can, you’re right too."
Choose your beliefs wisely!

[Immunefi @immunefi]

Over the last few weeks, 250+ security researchers have earned thousands of dollars on @immunefi .

Some walked away with mid-six figures.

A few even hit seven figures (that's over 1 Million).

If you believe you can’t, you’re right.

If you believe you can, you’re right too.

[Avalanche Team1 @AvaxTeam1]

Team1 Applications Are Open 🌎

Team1 is a global community helping people learn, build, & grow on Avalanche. Applications are now open with over 2000 submitted in just the first week. Apply & get involved

Blog below 👇

[marek.celo.eth 🦇🌳 @marek_]

Over the last 24 hours I've gotten a wave of DMs from @Cardano builders asking about @Celo and why they should consider building here. Great to see, so here's a rundown of what's going on and why now is a good time to take a look

@MiniPay continues to drive a ton of usage and activity on Celo, with 15M users. We're humbled to have a partner like @Opera, the publicly traded NASDAQ company behind it, and a lot of builders in our ecosystem have had real success deploying mini apps to MiniPay and seeing substantial traction

Agentic use cases keep getting more popular too. Look at the leaderboard on https://t.co/5eB06ggNH4: across the entire Ethereum ecosystem, it's effectively just Celo and Base that have attracted builders for the agentic economy. If you're doing anything with agents, check us out

Closely related is @selfxyz, a zk identity protocol that lets you create privacy-preserving zk proofs derived from your biometric passport or other forms of ID. Great for privacy-preserving Sybil resistance or OFAC compliance, or for a fun meme coin idea where you want to airdrop only to people with a certain first name, age, or eye color

Because we have so many local-currency stablecoins, including all the ones from the @MentoLabs protocol, Celo has increasingly become a great place for on-chain FX. You'll find @Uniswap, @VelodromeFi, and @CurveFinance, plus https://t.co/NTilNfQFAV, the perp dexes focused on levered trading of FX assets. And one more exciting update: USAT is coming to Celo. We already have native USDT and USDC, and soon Celo will be the first chain after Ethereum to receive native USAT, the GENIUS Act-compliant stablecoin launched by @tether in partnership with @Anchorage

Any questions, ask here or DM me. We're here to help

[BENQI🔺 @BenqiFinance]

Retro9000 is making Avalanche Community participation stronger even more direct.

Verify, get involved, and help support the builders pushing @avax forward.👇

[Avalanche Team1 @AvaxTeam1]

Avalanche Summit 🔺

September. NYC.

https://t.co/FPjAfZOIoJ

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

LATEST: ⚡️ Avalanche saw a 24x volume surge and 10x active address growth over several days as World Cup fans rushed to buy "Right to Buy" digital tickets, according to Ava Labs SVP Arielle Pennington.

[Emin Gün Sirer🔺⚔️ @el33th4xor]

Some of you may not realize that Avalanche is the tech platform that powers the FIFA world cup ticket sales.

[MSB Intel @MSBIntel]

BREAKING: "Avalanche was built from the ground up to tokenize the world's assets," says Ava Labs CBO John Nahas at Proof of Talk.

[Avalanche🔺 @avax]

Avalanche Summit comes home to New York.

Where markets move.
Where capital flows.
Where institutions operate at the highest level.
Where culture, finance, and technology shape what comes next.

This is where Summit belongs. And so do you.

Tickets: https://t.co/Q6Vj9cKMZl

For two days, Avalanche Summit brings together the founders, community, institutions, developers, and operators building blockchain for real markets, real assets, and real businesses.

Be in the center of it all at Avalanche Summit.

September 16–17
Chelsea Industrial, New York, NY

[Avalanche JAPAN 🔺🇯🇵 @avalanchejp]

FIFAワールドカップ2026™のチケット引き換え（Right-to-Ticket redemption）が@FIFACollect のAvalanche L1上で開始されました。

実際のファンによるアクティビティが大規模にチェーンへ流入しており、先週のトランザクション数は761%も急増しています。

世界的なスポーツブランドが、世界最大のスポーツイベントに向けてオンチェーン・ユーティリティを運用しています。まさにこのような需要のために構築された、専用のAvalancheインフラ上で🔺

[Avalanche France 🔺 @avalanche_fr]

Avalanche Summit arrive à New York.

Là où les marchés bougent.
Là où le capital circule.
Là où les institutions opèrent au plus haut niveau.
Là où la culture, la finance et la technologie façonnent ce qui vient ensuite.

C’est ici que le Summit doit être. Et vous aussi.

Tickets : https://t.co/HKvNWMfgIb

Pendant deux jours, Avalanche Summit réunit les founders, la communauté, les institutions, les développeurs et les opérateurs qui construisent la blockchain pour des marchés réels, des actifs réels et des entreprises réelles.

Soyez au cœur de tout au Avalanche Summit.
16–17 septembre
Chelsea Industrial, New York, NY

[MSB Intel @MSBIntel]

BREAKING: Avalanche RWA transfer volume surged 3,810% in 30 days to $428.9M.

[RebornAli3N 🔺 @0x_Ali3N]

🚨 Avalanche just recorded its 2nd highest monthly transaction count of all time.

🔺 82.577M transactions in May 2026, surpassed only by December 2023.

🔺 Despite bear market, @AVAX network is processing activity at levels rarely seen in its history 🔺

[Avalanche Team1 @AvaxTeam1]

2200+ applications across 60+ countries in the first few days

🔺🌎