For over 20 years, our CEO @MehowHacks has been finding security flaws before they become global problems.
From hacking electronic voting machines for the U.S. government to building one of crypto's most ambitious security companies, his mission has stayed the same: fix the infrastructure before it fails.
Read his latest profile by @Entrepreneur UK on why he believes crypto's biggest vulnerability isn't the blockchain, it's how people actually use it.
The pace of crypto development is also its biggest vulnerability.
Protocols ship before they're battle-tested.
New features open new attack surfaces faster than anyone can audit them.
Every innovation is also an unexamined door.
The industry rewards being first.
Attackers reward everyone who was first and unprepared.
A crypto address was meant to be a destination.
It became an identity.
Share it once and you've handed over a permanent, searchable record of everything you've done and will do.
No other financial system works this way.
Your account number isn't your public profile.
The single reusable address was a technical shortcut in 2009.
It became crypto's biggest privacy failure by default.
The privacy model crypto actually needs:
Anonymous to third parties. Transparent between the two people transacting.
Right now you get one or the other. Full transparency exposes everything to everyone.
Privacy pools hide everything from everyone, including the recipient who needs to know who paid them.
The answer is an identity layer that sits between those extremes.
Outsiders see nothing. The two parties see each other.
Private where it should be. Verifiable where it matter
The hardest part of crypto security infrastructure isn't building it.
It's getting it adopted.
A privacy and identity layer that requires developers to rebuild their entire wallet will never reach scale.
The version that wins is a drop-in SDK, integrate it on any chain, in any wallet, in days.
Zero cost to adopt.
Adoption friction kills more good infrastructure than bad technology ever does.
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Most compliant privacy systems have a backdoor.
They call it a "viewing key" - a master key that lets a third party see into your transactions. For compliance, supposedly.
But a viewing key is God mode. Someone, somewhere, can decide to look at your activity without your consent.
The better answer: no viewing key at all. The recipient can reveal their funds to whoever they choose, but no third party can decide for them.
Compliance without a backdoor. Disclosure without God mode.
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Wallet drainer bots don't hack your wallet.
They get you to hand it over yourself.
The attack flow:
1. Fake site mimics a legitimate protocol (Uniswap, OpenSea, Coinbase)
2. User connects wallet - standard action, feels safe
3. Site requests a transaction signature, looks routine
4. Signature approves a drainer contract to move all assets
5. Wallet emptied. Funds gone. Irreversible.
Dark web discussions about drainer malware rose 135% between 2022 and 2024.
The tooling is commoditized. The barrier to launching a campaign is near zero.
The attack doesn't exploit code. It exploits the fact that users can't verify what they're actually signing.
Can you have confidentiality without mixing?
Mixers hide your transaction by combining it with everyone else's, statistically including some bad actors. You can't prove your funds stayed clean.
Your counterparty can't verify it either.
Privacy that requires a shared pool will always have a compliance problem.
Building it without one is harder. That's the problem worth solving.