Ash | Guardian

Head of Sales @guardianaudits Over $45 Billion Secured. Shaping security for the future of finance. Ex @hpe @oracle.

[Guardian @GuardianAudits]

When is a DeFi protocol considered to have someone in control?

The FATF's DeFi report lists 12 indicative, non-exhaustive indicators of control. 🧵

[Ash | Guardian @guardianashkan]

@GuardianAudits Everybody needs this right now.

[Guardian @GuardianAudits]

In response to heightened risk across the blockchain ecosystem, today Guardian announces Managed Security for digital asset teams.

A security backbone for onchain organizations, run by Guardian engineers around the clock.

Here's how we're protecting 🧵

[Guardian @GuardianAudits]

A new Guardian Defender contest with @TemplarProtocol is now live, with a $100,000 award pool funded by Guardian!

Templar’s Precept lending lets anyone create isolated lending pools on Stellar.

Details on participating available below! ⤵️

[Ash | Guardian @guardianashkan]

Wake up onchain founders! $2.3B stolen in 2026. A $1M+ hack every week for 10 weeks straight. 89% of losses came from surfaces auditors never covered.

Only choose a security firm that protects you onchain AND offchain. @guardianaudits is one of the only firms with this track record at the institutional level. Dont waste money for false comfort. This is 2026.

[Finality @finalitypod]

On the latest episode of Finality, we sat down with @ProprXYZ, the onchain prop firm built on Hyperliquid.

Hear @louisregis on going from zero to $5M in revenue in five months, why AI agents pass evaluations more often than humans, and what's next for Propr.

Listen below ⤵️

[Ash | Guardian @guardianashkan]

Q2 2026 was the most hacked quarter in onchain history by incident count.

The pattern was keys, oracle signers, governance, and ops.

Proud of the fact that our model secures entire systems, not just smart contract code.

[Finality @finalitypod]

On the first episode of Finality, we sat down with @meta_pool, the liquid staking layer for the onchain economy.

Hear @ccossio on going from zero to $26M TVL in 72 hours, lessons from their 2025 exploit, and why AI agents are staking's next big opportunity.

Listen below! ⤵️

[Ash | Guardian @guardianashkan]

Liquid just lost $320M because of a bug in checking transactions. Attackers made fake bitcoin and cashed it out for real BTC. They gave most of it back but that doesn’t change the fact that if your bridge can mint without deposits, your users were never safe.

[GMX 🫐 @GMX_IO]

~15,000 lines of test code from Guardian's GMX reviews sit in the gmx-synthetics repo and still run against changes shipped today. @GuardianAudits has audited GMX since October 2022.

[Owen | Guardian @0xOwenThurm]

In 2026, the standards for auditing have completely changed.

If you're getting the typical Smart Contract audit something is being missed, and it will swiftly be found by someone else's AI agent.

Don't risk that person being an attacker.

Here's my overview of Vanguard.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Onchain reputation will be the new FICO score

[Ash | Guardian @guardianashkan]

@GuardianAudits The only solution to institutional onchain security in 2026.

[Guardian @GuardianAudits]

Today, Guardian announces Vanguard.

A security audit designed to protect onchain teams facing unprecedented cyber risk.

Along with Vanguard, we are announcing $1,000,000 in security audit funding. 🧵

[Ash | Guardian @guardianashkan]

CoinGecko's Aug 27 report states most hacked platforms had already been audited, and only about 11% of incidents were in-scope contract findings. Enterprise defi teams like @LayerZero_Core , @ethena, @yugalabs , @GMX_IO are choosing Guardian exactly because of this reason. We are paving the way and setting a new standard for onchain security.

[Ash | Guardian @guardianashkan]

Guardrails for agents moving capital in real time are really a policy engine problem: the wallet has to reject a bad action faster than the agent can retry it. Where does the policy get evaluated for ZeroDev? is it before signing with the client, or enforced at the account contract level?

[Ash | Guardian @guardianashkan]

@OseroHQ @gauntlet_xyz A looped sUSDS strategy behind a one-step deposit means the leverage decision lives entirely in the curator's parameters rather than the user's hands. What triggers a deleverage in the Gauntlet curation, a borrow rate threshold, a health factor band, or direct intervention?

[Ash | Guardian @guardianashkan]

FX-hedged consumer credit receivables sitting behind a vault is a very different risk shape than the usual stablecoin collateral, and doing it with over $70M in TVL means the hedge itself becomes infrastructure. How is the FX hedge rolled and priced when the underlying receivables amortize on a different schedule than the hedge tenor?

[Ash | Guardian @guardianashkan]

The interesting part of this week's launches isn't the yield but who owns the risk. Curated vaults, programmable wallets, RWA receivables onchain. These move a policy decision from a human committee into code that someone has to maintain. Choosing your security partner has never been a more significant and sensitive issue than it is now. Act accordingly.

[Guardian @GuardianAudits]

Our review of @ethos_network is now live!

Discover how Guardian partnered with Ethos to bring Reputation & Credibility Onchain with enterprise grade security.