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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
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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.

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.

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

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How Superform secured $135M+ in onchain yield with Cantina.

Cantina x Superform: Securing $135M in Onchain Yield

How Superform and Cantina secured over $135M in modular onchain yield infrastructure using validator-enforced architecture and composable smart accounts.
Paul
October 23, 2025
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October 23, 2025
Why AI-powered threats in Web3—from phishing to agent exploitation- are rising fast, and what teams must do to defend against automation.

AI Threats and Automation in Web3 Security

AI is reshaping Web3 security. Explore how attackers use automation and what organizations can do to defend against fast-evolving, AI-powered threats.
Paul
October 23, 2025
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October 23, 2025
Cantina October 2025 Changelog – Incident War Room & More

Cantina Code: From Live Exploit Handling to Custom Workflow Control

This Cantina update introduces Safe Harbor, incident triggers, custom views, and a new client dashboard to streamline Web3 security workflows.
Paul
October 23, 2025
Changelog
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October 23, 2025
Crypto Adoption Panel at Hack Seasons Singapore 2025

Hack Seasons Recap: Cantina, Mastercard, Mercuryo & Babylon on the Future of Crypto Adoption

Cantina joined Mastercard, Mercuryo, and Babylon at Hack Seasons Singapore to explore the real barriers to mainstream crypto adoption—usability, trust, security, and stablecoin readiness.
Paul
October 22, 2025
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October 22, 2025
Cantina outlines how Web3 startups can win institutional trust in 2025 by demonstrating security, compliance, and operational resilience.

How Web3 Startups Sell Security in 2025

Cantina’s guide for Web3 startups on earning institutional trust in 2025 through security, compliance, and operational resilience.
Paul
October 21, 2025
Best Practices
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October 21, 2025
Spearbit explains how critical protocol integrations cause major Web3 exploits and how composability-aware design prevents systemic vulnerabilities.

Beyond Audits: Securing Composable Protocols

Spearbit explores how Web3 protocols can prevent catastrophic exploits from composability risks through integration-aware design and system-level audits.
Paul
October 21, 2025
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October 21, 2025
Spearbit outlines how to secure vault-based DeFi protocols by validating accounting logic, access controls, and withdrawal mechanisms at the design stage.

Auditing Vault-Based Protocols in DeFi

Spearbit’s guide to securing vault-based DeFi protocols - covering accounting logic, strategy access, withdrawal design, and upgrade safety before deployment.
Paul
October 16, 2025
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October 16, 2025
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.
Paul
October 15, 2025
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October 15, 2025
Zero vulnerability means continuous verification and proactive defense across contracts, infrastructure, and governance in Web3 systems.

Zero Vulnerability in Web3 Security

Spearbit outlines how zero vulnerability transforms Web3 security from reactive audits to continuous, system-wide verification and resilience.
Paul
October 14, 2025
Spearbit
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October 14, 2025
Agglayer launches a $1,000,000 bug bounty with Cantina to secure cross-chain infrastructure and strengthen Ethereum’s scaling architecture.

Agglayer by Polygon Launches $1,000,000 Bug Bounty with Cantina

Agglayer by Polygon launches a $1,000,000 bug bounty with Cantina to strengthen cross-chain infrastructure securing Ethereum’s scaling ecosystem.
Paul
October 14, 2025
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October 14, 2025
UK stablecoin ownership caps reshape digital finance

UK Stablecoin Ownership Caps: Policy and Impact

The Bank of England’s proposed stablecoin caps redefine systemic risk oversight and signal global policy shifts in digital asset regulation.
Paul
October 13, 2025
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October 13, 2025
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
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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
Spearbit
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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
Changelog
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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
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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
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