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A $1M OKX DEX onchain bug bounty on Cantina, securing production routing contracts with clear scope, severity tiers, and high signal review.

OKX Labs, OKX Wallet and Cantina Launch the OKX DEX Onchain Bug Bounty Program

OKX Labs and OKX Wallet launch a $1M onchain bug bounty on Cantina, focused on production mainnet smart contracts in the DEX routing stack.

Paul

January 30, 2026

Partners Spotlights

PancakeSwap Infinity security on BNB Chain, plus the $1M Cantina bug bounty.

PancakeSwap: Redefining Dominance and Security on BNB Chain

PancakeSwap reached about $2.3B TVL on BNB Chain in 2025, shipped Infinity, and launched a $1M Cantina bug bounty to secure it.

Paul

January 29, 2026

Partners Spotlights

How to secure provenance based systems on Cosmos: prevent nondeterminism, validate oracle and IBC inputs, harden validators, and keep records auditable.

Provenance Security Best Practices for Cosmos Ecosystems

Best practices for provenance based blockchains: deterministic execution, oracle and IBC validation, metadata integrity, validator hardening, and auditability.

Paul

January 29, 2026

Spearbit

Neobank security guide, cloud to custody to smart contracts.

Neobank Security Best Practices: Safeguarding Digital Banks in Fintech and DeFi

A practical neobank security guide: cloud, APIs, mobile apps, custody, smart contracts, insider risk, monitoring, and incident response.

Paul

January 28, 2026

Spearbit

How Web3SOC helps institutions evaluate DeFi and tokenization partners faster with consistent scoring across security operations financial and regulatory readiness

Web3SOC for TradFi: De-Risking Digital Asset Adoption

Web3SOC helps banks asset managers and fintechs compare digital asset partners with evidence across security, operations, financial, and regulatory aspects.

Paul

January 28, 2026

Ecosystem

Web3SOC is the institutional due diligence standard for DeFi.

Web3SOC: The Institutional Due Diligence Standard for DeFi

Web3SOC is a maturity framework for DeFi due diligence, scoring operational, financial, security, and regulatory readiness for institutions and teams.

Paul

January 27, 2026

News

Full stack security beyond contracts for high TVL protocols.

Security Beyond Contracts: Closing Web3 Blind Spots

High TVL protocols get hacked through scope gaps: upgrades, oracles, frontends, and ops. Learn Cantina’s full lifecycle security model.

Paul

January 26, 2026

Best Practices

Cantina x Rocket Pool Saturn audit, securing staking upgrades at $1.85B TVL.

Rocket Pool at 1.852B TVL: Auditing Saturn with Cantina

How Rocket Pool prepared Saturn with Cantina audits, hardening rETH accounting, minipools, and validator flows at $1.85B TVL.

Paul

January 23, 2026

Partners Spotlights

Why 2026 security is an arms race. AI scales scams and exploit attempts, and teams need faster, evidence based analysis to reduce time to fix.

AI vs Attackers, The Security Arms Race in 2026

AI accelerates phishing and exploit discovery. See why Web3 security is now an arms race, and how Cantina’s AI Code Analyzer helps teams keep up.

January 22, 2026

DeFi and Web3 incident response and threat monitoring guide.

Incident Response and Threat Monitoring for Web3

Build incident response and threat monitoring for DeFi and Web3 with onchain detection, containment runbooks, and readiness audits by Spearbit.

Paul

January 22, 2026

Spearbit

Security playbook for protocols after product market fit.

Security After Product Market Fit: A Protocol Playbook

A practical playbook for protocols others depend on design reviews continuous analysis bounties and MDR that turn signal into action at scale.

Paul

January 21, 2026

Best Practices

Structured AI triage for MDR turning alerts into a brief with scope impact evidence actions and audit ready context for faster escalation.

The Incident Brief: AI Triage in Cantina MDR

Cantina MDR adds AI triage that produces a structured incident brief with scope impact evidence and next actions to cut MTTR.

Paul

January 20, 2026

Best Practices

Supply Chain Security and DevSecOps for Web3

Paul

January 20, 2026

Spearbit

Truebit TRU zero price overflow exploit unlimited minting and $26M loss with maintenance lessons for legacy contracts.

The Truebit Exploit Explained

How an unchecked addition in a 0.5.3 pricing function drove TRU’s purchase price to zero enabling unlimited minting and a $26M loss plus maintenance lessons.

Paul

January 16, 2026

Security Guides

Cantina offers free DNS monitoring and baseline scans to spot DNS abuse, hijacks, and lookalike domains early, then escalate to MDR for fast response.

Cantina Launches Free DNS Monitoring for Early Threat Signal

Get free DNS monitoring and baseline scans to map your domain surface area, catch DNS abuse early, and tighten posture before users are impacted.

Paul

January 15, 2026

News

AI driven threat intelligence for 2026 Web3 security.

Why 2026 Web3 Security Needs AI Threat Intelligence

After $3.35B lost in 2025, 2026 needs AI driven threat intelligence that detects rehearsal patterns, ranks real risk, and proves fixes with evidence.

Paul

January 14, 2026

Best Practices

MDR spots rehearsal patterns repeated calls, reverts, ordering pressure and turns them into fast, auditable containment on high throughput chains.

Why High Throughput Chains Need MDR

Low fees let attackers rehearse on mainnet. See how MDR uses sequence aware detection, clear escalation, and fast containment to stop exploits.

Paul

January 14, 2026

Best Practices

Zero trust IAM for Web3: strong auth, least privilege, lifecycle automation, and onchain role alignment.

Zero Trust Identity and Access for Web3 Protocols

Implement zero trust IAM in Web3 with strong auth, least privilege, automated lifecycle, mapped onchain roles, and Spearbit’s identity audit approach.

Paul

January 13, 2026

Spearbit

Cantina x Centrifuge 2026 guide to securing real world assets with correctness, governance, eligibility, and off chain integrity.

Cantina x Centrifuge: Securing Real-World Assets in 2026

A 2026 RWA security guide by Cantina and Centrifuge covering contract correctness, data integrity, governance, eligibility, and off chain controls.

Paul

January 13, 2026

Guides

ESRB warning on stablecoins and multi issuer risk with Cantina’s audit and Web3SOC approach.

ESRB Stablecoin Warnings Multi Issuer Risk

ESRB’s 2025 warning on stablecoins and multi issuer risk, with Cantina’s blueprint for governance alignment, redemption parity, and cross border controls.

Paul

January 12, 2026

Guides

From alert to action in minutes, simulate your worst attack and see how MDR adds preapproved authority, playbooks, and logged execution.

Simulate Your Worst Attack With Cantina MDR

Run a live incident drill that maps alerts, authority, and pause paths, and see how Cantina MDR turns detection into containment in minutes.

Paul

January 9, 2026

News

Zero Trust Identity and Access for Web3 Protocols

How to implement zero trust IAM for Web3 with strong authentication, least privilege roles, automated lifecycle, onchain governance, and Spearbit audits.

Paul

January 8, 2026

Spearbit

How Cantina helps builders and institutions move from point-in-time assurance to operational proof, with MDR, audits, and Web3SOC, in 2026.

Cantina for Newcomers

See how Cantina delivers full lifecycle security, with audits, MDR, bounties, AI security, and Web3SOC for builders and institutions in 2026.

Paul

January 7, 2026

News

DeFi security for contracts and wallets multisig and MPC policies bounded approvals and explicit invariants.

Smart Contract and Wallet Security for DeFi

Guide to securing DeFi with multisig and MPC design approval hygiene explicit contract invariants stress testing and integrated audit practices

Paul

January 6, 2026

Spearbit

January 2026 crypto regulatory signals and how to align now

January 2026 Regulatory Signals for Crypto

EU MiCA UK FCA and US SEC signals for 2026 and how crypto teams must align custody disclosures authorization pathways and incident response

Paul

January 6, 2026

News

Uniswap 2025: programmable liquidity and industry leading security with Cantina.

Cantina x Uniswap Labs 2025: A Historic Year For Liquidity, Institutions, And Security

Uniswap’s 2025 set a benchmark for liquidity and trust: v4 Hooks, CCA, Trading API, Monad and Unichain, smart wallet work, and a 15.5M USDC DeFi bounty.

Paul

December 24, 2025

Partners Spotlights

Cantina x LI.FI 2025 security spotlight for cross-chain aggregation

Cantina x LI.FI 2025: Secure aggregation for the crosschain stack

Cantina spotlights LI.FI in 2025 for secure cross chain aggregation backed by Diamond facets audits, a 1M bug bounty, and a 455k competition.

Paul

December 23, 2025

Partners Spotlights

BNB Chain builder security playbook from Cantina, HashDit, and Lista — chain-aware testing, monitoring, and governance best practices.

BNB Chain Builder Security Playbook by Cantina, HashDit, and Lista

Practical security playbook for BNB Chain: threat modeling, stress tests, layered oracle checks, MEV defenses, pause/timelocks. With HashDit & Lista.

Paul

December 23, 2025

Best Practices

Web2 weak links keep getting Web3 hacked and how to fix them.

The Web2 Weak Link In Web3 Security

Off chain systems like DNS apps consoles and cloud are common entry points. See how attackers pivot and how full stack reviews cut risk.

Paul

December 22, 2025

Best Practices

From alert to pause in minutes MDR delivers playbooks owners off hours escalation and auditable actions that institutions now expect

Cantina x Hypernative: MDR as the Security Baseline for 2026

Why MDR is the 2026 operating model from alert to containment rehearsed playbooks named authority off hours escalation and evidence trails

Paul

December 19, 2025

News

Inside Base’s bridge security program with Cantina layered audits validator rigor and a $5M bounty for institution grade assurance

Base Sets the Standard for Bridge Security with Cantina

Base and Coinbase set a high bar for Base to Solana bridge. Cantina audited validator logic and onchain components with a $5M bounty.

Paul

December 18, 2025

Best Practices

Solana security and compliance guide for institutional adoption

Cantina x SOL Strategies Solana Security and Compliance in 2026

How Solana teams align security and compliance for institutional adoption governance keys monitoring and evidence from Cantina x SOL Strategies

Paul

December 17, 2025

Guides

Cantina Blog

Web3SOC: The Institutional Due Diligence Standard for DeFi

Cantina Launches Free DNS Monitoring for Early Threat Signal

Cantina Achieves SOC 2 Type II Certification

Managed Detection and Response for Digital Asset Economy

OKX Labs, OKX Wallet and Cantina Launch the OKX DEX Onchain Bug Bounty Program

PancakeSwap: Redefining Dominance and Security on BNB Chain

Provenance Security Best Practices for Cosmos Ecosystems

Neobank Security Best Practices: Safeguarding Digital Banks in Fintech and DeFi

Web3SOC for TradFi: De-Risking Digital Asset Adoption

Web3SOC: The Institutional Due Diligence Standard for DeFi

Security Beyond Contracts: Closing Web3 Blind Spots

Rocket Pool at 1.852B TVL: Auditing Saturn with Cantina

AI vs Attackers, The Security Arms Race in 2026

Incident Response and Threat Monitoring for Web3

Security After Product Market Fit: A Protocol Playbook

The Incident Brief: AI Triage in Cantina MDR

Supply Chain Security and DevSecOps for Web3

The Truebit Exploit Explained

Cantina Launches Free DNS Monitoring for Early Threat Signal

Why 2026 Web3 Security Needs AI Threat Intelligence

Why High Throughput Chains Need MDR

Zero Trust Identity and Access for Web3 Protocols

Cantina x Centrifuge: Securing Real-World Assets in 2026

ESRB Stablecoin Warnings Multi Issuer Risk

Simulate Your Worst Attack With Cantina MDR

Zero Trust Identity and Access for Web3 Protocols

Cantina for Newcomers

Smart Contract and Wallet Security for DeFi

January 2026 Regulatory Signals for Crypto

Cantina x Uniswap Labs 2025: A Historic Year For Liquidity, Institutions, And Security

Cantina x LI.FI 2025: Secure aggregation for the crosschain stack

BNB Chain Builder Security Playbook by Cantina, HashDit, and Lista

The Web2 Weak Link In Web3 Security

Cantina x Hypernative: MDR as the Security Baseline for 2026

Base Sets the Standard for Bridge Security with Cantina

Cantina x SOL Strategies Solana Security and Compliance in 2026