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SOC 2 Type II achieved Cantina’s controls for security availability and confidentiality independently audited and verified.

Cantina Achieves SOC 2 Type II Certification

Cantina announces SOC 2 Type II certification and a continued commitment to audited enterprise grade security and operational maturity.
Paul
December 11, 2025
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Cantina MDR secures Web3 protocols through real time incident response

Managed Detection and Response for Digital Asset Economy

Cantina’s MDR bridges detection containment and recovery for digital assets organizations ensuring fast structured and trusted response under threat

Cantina and Hypernative join forces to deliver real-time monitoring, threat detection, and managed incident response for Web3 protocols.

Cantina x Hypernative: Setting the Standard for Web3 MDR

Cantina and Hypernative launch a Web3 Managed Detection and Response partnership delivering real-time threat detection and guaranteed incident response.

MDR ensures fast, structured response to threats, reducing loss and improving protocol resilience.

MDR: Preventing Protocol Collapse

Cantina’s MDR helps protocols act with structure under pressure, preventing loss through clear authority and coordinated response.

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Guide to Web3 Incident Response showing how coordinated action mitigates signer, validator, and configuration-based exploits.

Incident Response for Critical Web3 Threats

Detection isn’t protection. Learn how structured Incident Response changes the outcome of Web3 credential, validator, and DNS attacks.
Paul
October 9, 2025
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October 9, 2025
Exploring insider abuse and governance manipulation risks across DAOs and decentralized protocols.

Governance as an Attack Vector in Web3 Protocols

DAO and protocol governance can be exploited by insiders. Learn how proposal logic, delegation, and upgrades create hidden attack surfaces.
Paul
October 9, 2025
Spearbit
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October 9, 2025
Guide to mitigating Web3 infrastructure and supply chain risks in CI/CD, dependency graphs, and validator security.

Infrastructure & Supply Chain Security in Web3

As Web3 evolves, attackers target CI/CD pipelines, dependencies, and validator nodes. Learn how to secure your infrastructure and supply chain.
Paul
October 7, 2025
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October 7, 2025
Security coordination guide for modular blockchain ecosystems.

Security Coordination Across Modular Protocols

Modular blockchains split security across sequencers, provers, DA, and governance. Learn how to align roles, risks, and coordination for resilience.
Paul
October 2, 2025
Spearbit
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October 2, 2025
A framework for Web3 protocols to achieve operational continuity and resilience through Cantina’s MDR.

Managed Detection and Response: Operational Continuity for Web3

Protocols lost $2.17B in H1 2025. Cantina’s MDR builds execution readiness, aligning authority, timing, and response under stress.
Paul
October 1, 2025
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October 1, 2025
A guide to formal verification and why it matters for building secure, reliable, and provably correct protocols in Web3.

The Role of Formal Verification in Web3 Security

Learn how formal verification strengthens protocols with provable correctness, security, and resilience for high-stakes Web3 systems.
Paul
September 30, 2025
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September 30, 2025
Cantina Code introduces smarter filtering, centralized triage, faster judging, and improved notifications to streamline Web3 security reviews.

Cantina Code: Smarter Filtering and Faster Reviews

Cantina Code update adds smarter filtering, centralized triage, faster duplicate detection, and improved comment tracking for streamlined reviews.
Paul
September 30, 2025
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September 30, 2025
Cantina now supports Safe Harbor, providing legal protection for whitehats and stronger collaboration in Web3 bug bounty programs.

Cantina Adds Safe Harbor for Whitehat Protection

Cantina integrates Safe Harbor to protect whitehats in bug bounties, offering legal safeguards and stronger incident response coordination.
Paul
September 29, 2025
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September 29, 2025
Build with certainty. Formal verification provides provable guarantees for protocols that cannot afford logic or security failures.

A Strategic Guide to Formal Verification in Web3

Formal verification proves protocol correctness through math, reducing systemic risk and signaling maturity for institutional adoption.
Paul
September 25, 2025
Spearbit
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September 25, 2025
Why Solana’s Ed25519 signature verification model can fail silently without strict offset validation, creating systemic security risks.

Signature Verification Risks in Solana

Offset-based Ed25519 verification in Solana can fail silently. Learn why structural validation is essential for preventing message forgery.
Paul
September 23, 2025
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September 23, 2025
Protocols need safe upgrade paths. Governance alignment, proxy validation, and monitoring are key to preventing systemic failures.

Secure Protocol Upgrades with Governance Alignment

Learn how to secure protocol upgrades with governance-aligned audits, covering proxies, roles, simulations, and rollback strategies.
Paul
September 23, 2025
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September 23, 2025
Validator-aware staking architecture under review — Kinetiq challenges its design on Hyperliquid with a $5M bug bounty to prove resilience.

Kinetiq Redefines Secure Staking on Hyperliquid

Kinetiq launches a $5M bug bounty with Cantina to test validator-aware staking and secure liquid staking on Hyperliquid under real conditions.
Paul
September 23, 2025
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September 23, 2025
Institutional infrastructure for the digital economy, Ethereum’s role in enabling trustware, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and scalable verifiability.

Ethereum and the Rise of Trustware

Ethereum is becoming institutional infrastructure. Trustware encodes finality and validity in code, replacing intermediaries with verifiable trust.
Paul
September 22, 2025
Guides
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September 22, 2025
Security strategy for every NEAR deployment - covering runtime, validators, bridges, and operational practices to ensure resilient infrastructure.

NEAR Security Unpacked for Builders

A guide to NEAR security from WASM contracts to validator economics, covering execution safety, bridge risks, and deployment best practices.
Paul
September 18, 2025
Spearbit
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September 18, 2025
$100K Makina × Cantina mainnet CTF, validating cross-chain execution, atomic unwinds, and programmable capital in adversarial conditions.

Makina and Cantina Launch a $100,000 Cross‑Chain Mainnet CTF

Makina and Cantina launch a $100K cross-chain mainnet CTF to stress-test Makina’s execution engine with live liquidity and adversarial testing.
Paul
September 18, 2025
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September 18, 2025
The GENIUS Act defines stablecoin compliance, but institutions need proof of resilience. Cantina highlights remaining risks and paths to readiness.

Beyond Genius Act Stablecoin Risks

The GENIUS Act sets a compliance baseline, but stablecoins still face institutional risk from redemption logic, blacklist gaps, and oracle fragility.
Paul
September 17, 2025
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September 17, 2025
Avalanche architecture under pressure — security for consensus, validator coordination, and governance in modular deployments.

Avalanche Deployments: Security and Subnet Resilience

A security guide to Avalanche subnet autonomy, validator coordination, governance models, and resilient deployment practices.
Paul
September 16, 2025
Spearbit
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September 16, 2025
Cantina evolves its Fellowship by removing exclusivity, empowering researchers with priority access plus freedom to join competitions everywhere.

Evolving the Cantina Fellowship

Cantina removes exclusivity from its Fellowship, giving researchers priority access while enabling participation in competitions and bounties everywhere.
Paul
September 16, 2025
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September 16, 2025
The largest HyperEVM bounty ever: Kinetiq commits $5M on Cantina to strengthen liquid staking security and engage the global researcher community.

Kinetiq Launches $5M Bug Bounty - The Largest on HyperEVM with Cantina

Kinetiq, DeFi’s fastest-growing LST, launches a $5M bug bounty on Cantina to strengthen HyperEVM security and build long-term trust in liquid staking.
Paul
September 15, 2025
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September 15, 2025
16 Trillion Market | Digital Asset Security with Cantina

Unlocking a 16 Trillion Market: How Tokenization, Compliance, and Security Are Transforming Digital Assets

Tokenization is revolutionizing finance, but without strict adherence to regulatory compliance and rigorous security practices, the risks are immense. Cantina’s cutting-edge security solutions empower Web3 organizations and institutions to meet these challenges head-on.
Paul
September 12, 2025
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September 12, 2025
Securing Polygon Deployments | Cantina

Securing Polygon Deployments: A Guide to Navigating Risk Across PoS and zkEVM

This blog outlines how to approach risk management across Polygon’s dual environments, with a particular focus on the PoS bridge, zkEVM architecture, governance mechanics, and evolving coordination through Polygon 2.0.
Paul
September 11, 2025
Spearbit
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September 11, 2025
DeFi Enters Retirement Funds | Cantina

DeFi enters retirement portfolios: Institutional Risk demands new security standards

On August 7, the U.S. administration issued an executive order that signals a shift in how retirement plans may allocate capital. This shift introduces a new layer of complexity. Asset managers, plan sponsors, and financial institutions will need to evaluate whether the protocols behind these assets are equipped to meet institutional security standards.
Paul
September 11, 2025
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September 11, 2025
Institutional Assurance for Mobile Signing Systems | Cantina

Institutional Assurance for Mobile Signing Systems

As digital asset infrastructure and financial services shift toward mobile‑first delivery, institutions are expected to secure more than just application code.
Paul
September 10, 2025
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September 10, 2025
From Custody To Confidence - Institutional-Grade Security with Cantina

From Custody to Confidence: Engineering DeFi Infrastructure for Institutional Access

Cantina supports institutions and protocol builders with a process-focused approach that links technical security with compliance viability.
Paul
September 9, 2025
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September 9, 2025
Cosmos Security with Spearbit

Securing Cosmos Appchains: A Trust-Aligned Guide to ABCI, Determinism, and IBC Integrity

As the Cosmos ecosystem continues to expand, developers and infrastructure teams face an increasingly complex security environment. This guide outlines high-impact vulnerabilities and purposeful mitigations.
Paul
September 9, 2025
Spearbit
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September 9, 2025
Panoptic And Cantina Prevent A Major Loss

Inside the $4M Whitehat Rescue: Cantina x Panoptic

A summary of how Panoptic and Cantina worked together to avoid a major crisis and save user funds.
Paul
September 5, 2025
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September 5, 2025
Securing Stablecoins - Spearbit

Securing Stablecoins: A Risk-Aligned Perspective on Design, Deployment, and Oversight

This blog offers a structured lens for evaluating stablecoin architectures across their full lifecycle.
Paul
September 4, 2025
Spearbit
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September 4, 2025
Cantina Stablecoin Infrastructure 2025 Guide for Institutions

Stablecoin Infrastructure Playbook: 2025 Edition

Explore the Stablecoin Infrastructure Playbook: a guide for institutions on risk, regulation, redemption, and resilience in a growing market.
Paul
September 4, 2025
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September 4, 2025
Security audits stall when structure is missing. Architecture debt leads to delays, redesigns, and real attack risks without early clarity.

Architecture Debt Is Security Debt

Unclear architecture creates late-stage security risks, delays audits, and exposes protocols. Structure upstream to enable review velocity and resilience.
Paul
August 29, 2025
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August 29, 2025
Cross-chain liquidity at scale. LI.FI unifies access to 30+ chains and 35+ DEXs, backed by modular design and proactive security validation.

Cantina x LI.FI: Secure Cross-Chain Liquidity Infrastructure

LI.FI powers secure, composable cross-chain liquidity with modular architecture, broad integrations, and a $1M bug bounty program.
Paul
August 28, 2025
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August 28, 2025
A practical reference for builders on Arbitrum. Outlines security risks in sequencer design, governance, and cross-chain coordination with mitigation steps.

Securing Arbitrum Deployments: A Developer Guide

A practical guide for securing Arbitrum deployments. Covers sequencer risk, governance, cross-chain issues, and Spearbit’s role in protocol resilience.
Paul
August 26, 2025
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August 26, 2025
Cantina and HackerOne collaboration expands blockchain security coverage for enterprises and decentralized ecosystems.

Cantina and HackerOne Partner to Advance Blockchain Security

Cantina and HackerOne unite Web2 and Web3 expertise to secure blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, and enterprise systems.
Paul
August 26, 2025
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August 26, 2025
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