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Security Strategist @PashovAuditGrp

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🚀 This month I got 3 bug bounties paid out and built an open-source Claude Code skill along the way. Finding the bug is the hard part, but what really determines the outcome is how well you demonstrate its impact. That's where the PoC matters most: if it's not a mainnet-fork end-to-end test on real deployed contracts at the current mainnet state, it doesn't really prove impact. I iterated a lot before figuring out what actually works. Now it's a skill anyone can install. Free & fully open source 👇 github.com/cholakovvv/foundr…
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Heading to London for @solana Breakpoint in a couple of days!🇬🇧 Would be great to catch up with builders, founders, and anyone working in the space. If you're going too, drop me a DM and let's meet up 🤝
10 DAYS TO BREAKPOINT. I REPEAT. 10 DAYS.
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Possible $2B+ hack happening right now. If confirmed, this could be the biggest crypto hack ever. Looks like a @binance wallet was drained into a fresh address, with the transaction reportedly funded via Tornado Cash. Still unconfirmed.
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TX hash: 0x53bd38b816c23e74134786c29a8c18d792777998a3b9326047b583100e88e2f3 Potential hacker's wallet where the funds were sent: 0x8532FA14ACAf483729C449b8458aedDb900543D4
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Pashov Audit Group 🤝 @spectra_finance Spectra lets users launch yield markets and we are now bringing our security expertise to their new order book functionality on EVM networks. Looking forward to a great partnership together🫡
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someone left $2k in BTC on a server vulnerable to PHP2Shell for anyone to steal 💀 somehow lasted almost 20 hours hahaha, thought it'd be gone in the first hour stealmybitcoin.com/
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Pashov Audit Group 🤝 @sparkfinance Our security expertise now serves Spark - with ~$9.5B in TVL, they allocate institutional capital on-chain for max efficiency. Looking forward to protect this mission-critical code with our best efforts🫡
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The real measure of success for a security firm? Building trust with great teams who keep coming back. And speaking of that, we're now on our 4th audit with the legends at @PareStocks 🤝 That's the kind of relationship we're building at @PashovAuditGrp
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it's always great to see @ethereumfndn recognizing the work we do for the community at PAG! 🙏 some more cool things coming soon...👀
We've been listed on ethereum.org for our contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem with our AI agent Skills repository This is just the beginning of our contributing, planning so much more, looking to grow the pie for everyone around🫡
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The security audit report for our third audit with @PareStocks was just published on our Github - 5 days, 4 strong Medium severity vulnerability findings, all fixed🤝 Read the report below👇 github.com/pashov/audits/blo…
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cholakov retweeted
Audit three is live on the site. @PashovAuditGrp went through the contracts behind our dollar markets, 1 to 4 October. Eight researchers. 35 findings. 0 critical. 0 high. 
4 medium, all fixed. 
7 low, 6 fixed, 1 acknowledged with the reasoning in the report. 
24 informational, all fixed. Pashov’s team checked every fix again, and the dollar markets running today were deployed from that fixed build. That makes three Pashov reviews. 84 findings between them. Not one critical. Not one high. Every finding is on the page: parestocks.com/audit
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Pashov Audit Group 🤝 Polymarket V2 Team has a true security mindset, was a pleasure🫡
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cholakov retweeted
Audit 3. Paid. Starts tomorrow! @PashovAuditGrp are back for a third pass, this time on the contracts behind Chapter 2. Same crew that went through every line of what's live today. When they're done, the doors open. Same engine that splits a stock into the share and the dividends, pointed at things that pay a lot more than a stock. 😎 Not naming names yet. You know the drill!
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cholakov retweeted
I've released 2 out of 4 modules in the AI for Web3 Security series. People are already building their own AI harnesses and sharing results. If you haven't checked them out yet, now's a good time. 🫡
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Let's be honest... If you're a dev building in Solidity and haven't used PAG's open-source skills yet, you're really behind 😅 Even devs from a serious company in the space told us they've adapted them to Rust and Go and are already using them in their pre-audit process to find some pretty cool bugs
🚨SOLIDITY-AUDITOR V4 IS NOW OPEN SOURCE (MIT LICENSE) A single command now gets up to 85% recall on High severity findings from multi-week contests from last year. This used to cost protocols tens of thousands - we made it FREE, so any dev can build more safely. by PAG team🫡
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cholakov retweeted
This is what me and my team have been working for in the past 2+ years Infinitely grateful for all the genius security researchers in the space who contribute and make all progress possible - you are the best🔥🫡
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Our security researchers are not just publicly proven and highly experienced but also vetted - they pass multiple checks with us as an extra safety step. We build long-term relationships, not one-offs with auditors. Read about our vetting process👇 pashov.com/blog/no-dprk-allo…
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Pashov Audit Group 🤝 @saturn_credit We have partnered with the strong team of Saturn Labs to provide them with our highest level of security expertise. Looking forward towards a long and fruitful work together🫡
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Been looking into Arc a bit more and there are a few things I wouldn’t want to assume are “the same as Ethereum” just because it’s EVM compatible. On Arc: • USDC pays for gas • Tokens can use 18 or 6 decimals • CallFrom preserves the original msg.sender • Zero-address and blocklisted transfers revert • SELFDESTRUCT can move USDC Standard Anvil won’t reproduce these behaviors either. So if you’re porting contracts to Arc, I’d definitely treat it as more than just another EVM deployment.
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Pashov Audit Group 🤝 @ensembleio We've spent 3 weeks of reviewing the codebase of Ensemble - the platform packaging Hyperliquid-powered strategies into accessible products for everyone🙏 Report is below👇 github.com/pashov/audits/blo…
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new bomb dropped👀💣
Kicking off a hands-on series: AI for Web3 Security, Zero to Hero. Meant to be your starting point: build a real AI security agent, module by module, until you have a full harness of your own. Module 1 is up - your very first agent, from scratch.
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