The Web3 Security Podcast
Episodes
Polygon Labs' two-team security structure: where most Web3 breaches actually start | Mudit Gupta
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
ZK infrastructure carries more bugs than the smart contract layer — and the only thing preventing large-scale exploits is that the number of people ...
Sky's zero-finding audit framework: Six-month onboarding and process investigation | Deniz Yilmaz
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Sky's audits return serious issues, they don't just fix bugs and ship—they pull the brake and investigate what failed in their internal...
World Foundation's iris spoofing defense: The left-eye/right-eye exploit | DC Builder
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
World Foundation's proof of personhood system defended against an iris spoofing attack where users verified multiple times by pairing their left e...
How Solana achieved 2 years uptime after launching with $3M | Matt Sorg (Solana Foundation)
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Solana dropped to $8 during FTX, Matt Sorg watched Twitter erupt while his validator network stayed focused on the technical roadmap. The VP of T...
Six months before touching production: How Sky enforces context-building that delivers zero-finding audits | Deniz Yilmaz
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Sky's audits return serious issues, they don't just fix bugs and ship—they pull the brake and investigate what failed in their internal review ...
Coinbase's Auditing Standards with Shashank Agrawal
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coinbase's security process protecting over $7 billion in TVL rejects the single-audit model common in DeFi. Shashank Agrawal, Senior Engineering Mana...
Ethereum Foundation's path to 10,000 TPS and Bitcoin's 51% attack risk | Justin Drake
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Drake reveals Ethereum's infrastructure path to 1 gigagas per second—equivalent to 10,000 TPS and 10x Solana's current user transaction throu...
Cosmos Labs' 3 pivots in 6 months: Timeboxing experiments to find PMF | Barry Plunkett
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the Interchain Foundation acquired Skip Protocol in 2024, Cosmos Labs inherited a 200-chain ecosystem with no commercial strategy and a massive s...
Centrifuge's serial audits: 6 security reviews that reshaped RWA architecture | Jeroen Offerijns
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maker's core accounting contract—the vat—has remained immutable for six years while processing tens of billions in TVL. Centrifuge is proving this...
Safe's $60B security stack: Formal verification, audits, and $1M bounties | Richard Meissner
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Safe's smart account infrastructure secures $60B+ in TVL while handling over $1 trillion in cumulative transaction volume. Co-founder, Richard Meissne...
Gnosis validator sniping attacks: How to harvest MEV through IP mapping | Sebastian Bürgel
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Bürgel's modified Lighthouse client can map any Ethereum validator's public key to their IP address by collecting attestation signatures an...
Eigen Labs' 3-person team securing $23B in crypto: Restaking security at scale | Anto Joseph
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When you discover someone who found a way to decrypt every WhatsApp message through symmetric key reuse, then later designed Coinbase's ETH staking ar...
How to secure $70 billion in DeFi: Aave's approach to Web3 security at scale | Ernesto Boado (BGD Labs)
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you're responsible for $70 billion in user funds and every code change requires approval from hundreds of token holders? Ernesto Boa...
Polygon's 13-step multisig securing billions: Advanced governance security | Chris von Hessert
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a veteran Web2 security executive turns multisig ceremony coordinator at Polygon? The result: a crash course in how Web3 security de...
Ethereum Foundation's 10-year bug bounty program: Security lessons | Fredrik Svantes
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fredrik Svantes evolved from hunting World of Warcraft gold farmers to securing Ethereum's trillion-dollar ecosystem as the foundation's Security Rese...