Waydou

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[Waydou @waydou9]

@pkqs91 very intresting, thank you

[Waydou @waydou9]

@VittoStack Interested !

[Waydou @waydou9]

Anyone on how to bypass the "Fable 5's safety measures flagged this message for cybersecurity or biology topics, Switched to Opus 4.8" ?

[Waydou @waydou9]

@Omisanin0 @immunefi Congratulations, can't wait to read the writeup

[Waydou @waydou9]

@bcherny
What's this supposed to mean?

[Waydou @waydou9]

@m4rio_eth imo @claudeai is being too dumb, I'm having it on max effort but still returns result that aren't well thought in 3/4 minutes

[Waydou @waydou9]

@_itsjustshubh That’s exactly how I feel @AnthropicAI please fix this

[Waydou @waydou9]

I'm convinced Anthropic is dropping a new model next week because it's actually unbelievable how dumb Opus 4.7 has become inside Claude Code these few days.

[Waydou @waydou9]

@ret2basic Please let us know what you pick next, it's depressing 😭

[Waydou @waydou9]

@ret2basic Very amazing, congratulations 🙌

[Immunefi @immunefi]

Most security firms are quietly moving away from audit competitions.

This is one of the biggest mistakes happening in crypto security right now.

There is a simple way to think about audit value: what does it cost to find a critical vulnerability?

We looked at the actual data on what it costs to find critical bugs in crypto, and the numbers are not surprising.

Finding a critical vulnerability in an audit competition costs $6,548 on average. The exact same severity bug through a bug bounty program costs $114,000. That is 17x more expensive for the same result.

Now look at the traditional audit model.

Some top firms charge $100 per line of code. Others charge as high as $25,000 per auditor per week. A single engagement can easily run $200k to $500k+, and you are getting maybe 2 to 4 people looking at your code.

But cost per critical is not even the most interesting part.

The interesting part is the structure of who is looking at your code.

When you hire a firm, you get 2 to 4 auditors. Maybe they are great. Maybe one of them is having a bad week. You are making a concentrated bet on a small number of people.

An audit competition attracts hundreds of security researchers. These are some of the best hackers, people who have found real vulnerabilities in major protocols.
These hundreds of researchers are now armed with AI tools. They understand codebases faster. They write PoCs faster. They find bugs that would have taken DAYS in just hours.

Think about what that means.

You are not just getting hundreds of humans. You are getting hundreds of AI-augmented humans, each running their own workflow, each with their own intuition about where bugs hide.

The scaling dynamics are extraordinary.

The firms moving away from competitions are optimizing for predictable revenue, not for their clients’ best outcomes.

That is understandable from a business perspective.

But if you are a project choosing where to spend your security budget, you should optimize for bugs found per dollar spent.

Audit competitions now also have scaling pots. The prize pool grows with the scope of the codebase.

This aligns incentives in a way that fixed-fee engagements never can.

But what about AI spam, low-quality submissions, and the time it takes to triage all of those submissions?

Immunefi is addressing these with mechanisms like pay-to-submit, managed triage, and AI triaging agents, which are already showing very strong promise.

The best security strategy is not either or.

But if you have a limited budget and you want the most eyes, the most diverse skill sets, and the best cost per finding ratio, audit competitions are still the obvious choice.

[Waydou @waydou9]

@hklst4r @KelpDAO That’s insane, can’t wait to read your bug analysis

[Waydou @waydou9]

@immunefi @ZKPassport
Identity verification via zkPassport is currently failing (app errors), preventing bug submissions.
Support request already submitted, but no response yet.
Several users are affected (per Discord).
Could the team provide an update?

[Waydou @waydou9]

@lyes_boudjabout Thanks a lot! Will definitely keep working harder

[Waydou @waydou9]

Results of @centrifuge on @sherlockdefi are out, Should’ve put more hours int this to grab all edge cases, still happy with finding the only high in the contest especially that this is one of the largest code bases that I’ve had the chance to audit , needs to keep going. 🔥🔥🔥

[Waydou @waydou9]

@0x18a6 @centrifuge @sherlockdefi thanks boss 🙏

[Waydou @waydou9]

@Huntoor @centrifuge @sherlockdefi Thank you boss 🔥

[Waydou @waydou9]

@Yaioxy @centrifuge @sherlockdefi Thank you 🙏

[Waydou @waydou9]

@gowtham_ponnana @trailofbits @CarterToB Congratulations!

[0xSimao @0xSimao]

1/ Introducing The Mentorship Series
https://t.co/EavHXaNBXT

I’m personally mentoring a small, hand-picked group of auditors in 2026. 1st announced tmr.

3 months of 1-on-1 mentoring with me each.

Targets:
0 → 4 figures
4 → 5 figures

Step 1: Like and repost this post.