riptide & adrian hetman discuss running the triage department at immunefi, how to write the best bug report, using LLMs wisely, how your report is viewed by triagers and the protocol team, why reports get rejected, cleaning your brain's cache to improve your bug hunting, a juicy ALPHA drop, and much, much, more ...

Episode 25 - adrian hetman

riptide & montyly (josselin feist, humble slither creator) discuss his tenure at trailofbits, web2 vs web3 security posture, security tooling, internalizing security and solving the human problem, concolic execution/hybrid fuzzing, using LLMs as a force multiplier, an ALPHA drop, why putting underscores in your file names is 32337, and much, much, more ... 

Episode 24 - josselin feist

riptide & the Obsidian audit team (0xjuann & 0xspearmint) discuss their Fraxlend high severity bug find including a deep dive into ERC4626 vaults, helping hyperliquid builders with their hyper-evm-lib public good, how they use automated tooling during audits, why you should drop out of med school to be an auditor, defi strategies and risk tolerance, alpha drops, and much, much, more ... 

Episode 23 - 0xjuann & 0xspearmint

riptide & mackenzie discuss the inner workings of immunefi, what happens behind the scenes as soon as you click submit on that juicy bug report, mackenzie's unique omniscient view of bug reports and bug hunters, how to up your negotiation game to get paid, and much, much, more ... 

Episode 22 - mackenzie

riptide & danielvonfange discuss running a bug bounty program at Origin and dealing with LLM spam and bounty sizing, how he creates tests and invariants, hunting bugs before you were born, the challenges of selecting audit partners, security in crypto now vs the past, why devs and auditors should cross-train, why PHP rules, and how morals, ethics and incentives intersect in crypto, and much, much, more ...

Episode 21 - danielvonfange

riptide & chasethelight discuss how getting rugged on BSC led him to create his automated bug finding tool Lightchaser, why programming in C and ASM can make learning new languages easier, why static and dynamic analysis trumps LLMs, why you should dig deeper to outperform automated bug detection, why we need bounty hunters and the importance of manual review, how Lightchaser V4 is leveling up bug detection, and much, much, more ...

Episode 20 - chasethelight

riptide & 0xe4669da discuss the challenges of breaking into bug hunting, mistakes he made when getting started, when to change your approach when it's not working, why you need to fully understand solidity inside and out, how focusing on your objective will lead to deeper bug discoveries, a LayerZero alpha drop from our guest, and much, much, more ... 

Episode 19 - 0xe4669da [SPECIAL n00b EDITION]

riproprip & riptide discuss the origins of the humble chad, his humble background, scoring big bounties in business class,  repetition and building a knowledge base to find bugs, what to do when you find a bug but don't know who to contract, is the ethereum foundation bug bounty size correctly, avoiding burnout, incentives drive human behavior, and why you should jetsurf anon ...  

Episode 18 - riptide

riptide & lonelysloth discuss how it feels hitting 7 figure bounty payouts, how to find obscure bugs that no one is looking for, why bounty hunters find bugs auditors miss, ZK bugs and things to look for, approach to learning new complex subjects, what motivates a lonelysloth, what planet he actually comes from, and much, much, more ...

Epsiode 17 - lonelysloth

riptide & 0xflint discuss his humble beginnings in crypto making $0.01 on his first contest to becoming an LSR at Certora, how to get what you want out of life, breaking into crypto and why merit trumps all, use cases for premium LLM tools while auditing, alpha drop on solidity trapdoors, why he punishes himself to improve day-in and day-out, why you should add communication and leadership skills to your tech stack, questions from the humble podcast audience, and much, much, more ...

Episode 16 - 0xflint

BOUNTY HUNT3RZ: LIFE ON THE BLOCKCHAIN interviews the top bug bounty hunters in crypto to discover their secrets to finding live bugs, saving the day, and making millions of dollars all while remaining extremely jacked and ripped

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