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RESEARCH & WRITING

Vulnerability analysis, bug-hunting methodology, and DeFi security — for auditors and the teams they report to.

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  • 01June 28, 2026

    Utilizing the Feedback Loop Properly to Find More Bugs

    7 min

    The security community's version of the feedback loop is missing the reward that makes habits actually stick. A framework for deliberately training bug-pattern recognition using cue, craving, response, and reward.

    methodology
  • 02May 12, 2026

    The Whitehat System Is Broken. Here Is What Needs to Change.

    6 min

    When a Renegade Finance attacker returned funds after negotiating a 'bounty,' part of the security community sympathized. Why that wasn't a whitehat story — and what bug bounty infrastructure actually needs to fix.

    disclosure
  • 03January 28, 2026

    Find More Bugs by Learning to Break a Protocol's Assumptions

    6 min

    Invariants sit on top of assumptions, and that's where most exploits live. A framework for finding the beliefs a protocol depends on and testing whether they actually hold.

    methodology