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Refi: An Intro

If you’ve been around the web3 space for a while, you’ve probably heard the term “ReFi,” thrown around, but what does it mean?

February 7, 2023
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Quantstamp Launches Security Platform for Select Founding Partners

December 13, 2022
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Rollup Escape Hatches

After years of effort, rollups are becoming mainstream components of the Ethereum ecosystem. An escape hatch is a method to recover digital assets or program state from a rollup when sequencers or validators are offline, a critical security feature if something goes wrong, and crucial given the complexity of these systems.

October 25, 2022
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The Merge Results And The Future of Ethereum

Results of the merge and how it impacts ETH issuance, and details on future Ethereum upgrades and Ethereum's final form.

September 14, 2022
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Preventing Replay Attacks Post Ethereum Merge

Learn more about replay attacks and how users interacting with both PoW and PoS chains can stay safe following the merge.

September 12, 2022
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Chainproof Launches as the World's First Regulated Smart Contract Insurance Provider

Incubated by Quantstamp and backed by Sompo and reinsured by MunichRe, Chainproof offers regulated insurance against hacks for non-custodial smart contracts on a public decentralized blockchain.

July 5, 2022
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The Dark Side of DeFi: Cross-Chain Bridge Hacks

Cross-chain bridge hacks and some of the attack vectors that make bridges especially vulnerable.

May 11, 2022
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Quantstamp to Sponsor DeFi Talents Mentoring Program

Quantstamp is pleased to sponsor the current cohort of DeFi Talents, a program for empowering talent for leadership in the decentralized finance space.

April 13, 2022
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Proper Treatment of Randomness on EVM-Compatible Networks

Solidity does not have a function for generating random numbers, yet Ethereum dapp developers sometimes desire random numbers in order to develop lotteries, NFT drops, and games where randomness influences the outcomes...

February 16, 2022
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Quantstamp Audits Layer 1 Blockchains

Quantstamp Audits Layer 1 Blockchains

Apart from securing the applications that run on blockchain platforms, we also offer security services for base layer protocols. Our experience with base layer protocols includes ETH2, Avalanche, and Cardano.

Quantstamp Labs
September 1, 2020
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Quantstamp Helps Secure IDEX 2.0

Quantstamp Helps Secure IDEX 2.0

Quantstamp, a leading blockchain security company, has finished its audit of IDEX 2.0, a new, higher performance update to popular decentralized exchange IDEX. Security is one of the main issues holding back Decentralized Finance, so we’re happy to be helping IDEX scale to the next stage of their growth by auditing their latest platform.

Quantstamp Announcements
August 28, 2020
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The Stablecoins Driving Blockchain Adoption

The Stablecoins Driving Blockchain Adoption

2020 has been a milestone year for stablecoins. Learn more about some of the stablecoins Quantstamp has secured that are changing the future of our financial system.

Quantstamp Labs
August 27, 2020
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The DeFi Projects Impacting the Future of Finance

The DeFi Projects Impacting the Future of Finance

DeFi applications continue to push the automation and decentralization of finance at an aggressive pace. In this post we describe how Curve, yearn.finance, and KeeperDAO contribute to a hyper-liquid future.

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August 24, 2020
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Quantstamp Enhancing the Security of Avalanche

Quantstamp Enhancing the Security of Avalanche

Quantstamp provides security services to Layer 1 decentralized protocols including Avalanche. In this post, we describe how Avalanche aims to bring DeFi to global finance institutions.

Quantstamp Announcements
August 18, 2020
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Quantstamp Audits Curve Finance Liquidity Mining

Quantstamp Audits Curve Finance Liquidity Mining

Quantstamp is happy to announce that we have finished our audit of Curve Finance’s CRV token reward mechanism and CurveDAO.

Quantstamp Announcements
August 18, 2020