Biography
Drastic Watermelon
Blockchain Security Researcher
Summary
Drastic Watermelon is a distinguished blockchain security researcher with a career in web3 security that began in 2022. After excelling in audit competitions on platforms such as Code4rena and Sherlock, he was selected as a top fellow in Block 5 of the yAudit Fellowship and subsequently joined yAudit as a resident auditor.
Throughout his career, Watermelon has conducted comprehensive security reviews of a wide array of EVM smart contracts (Solidity and Vyper) for premier clients, including Curve, Centrifuge, Yearn, and Sickle. In 2024, he expanded his expertise to low-level client reviews, focusing initially on the Cosmos SDK and CosmWasm ecosystems before extending his work to Polkadot Parachains and native Rust implementations.
Key Achievements & Research
- Uniswap V4 Documentation Flaw: During a security review for Sickle, he discovered a critical error in Uniswap V4's documentation that put native token liquidity providers' funds at risk. The vulnerability was found to be actively exploited by an MEV bot shortly after its discovery. Twitter Thread
- Critical Vulnerability Identification: Identified a critical vulnerability in a major, EVM-compatible blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK.
- Sybil Attack Research: Authored a research post analyzing the economic viability and impact of sybil attacks within web3 audit competitions. (Blog Post)
Competitive Accomplishments
Top competitions
View allContest | Position | Date | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|
Centrifuge | 2 / 14 | August 2024 | $25,109 |
telcoin-network | 2 / 92 | June 2025 | $14,163 |
TermMax | 1 / 10 | November 2024 | $8,342 |
collar-core | 8 / 19 | November 2024 | $698 |
Private reviews
View allEngagement | Project title | Timeframe | Researchers |
|---|---|---|---|
Centrifuge | centrifuge-protocol-v3 | Apr 2025 - May 2025 |