bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain

riptide & merkle_bonsai discuss his $400,000 bug find on Oasys which took a world record 7 months to finally get paid, bug hunting blockchain backend code instead of contracts, the future of blockchains and which coding languages have staying power, nicotine and caffeine, rewriting protocol code to better understand it, smaller screens means more bugs, behavioral tricks and environmental context to train your brain for bug hunting, how DeGate is his nemesis, humble elliptic curve explanation, ZK moon math, virtual earths and the relation to GPS accuracy, and much, much more ...

riptide and rootrescue discuss his $400,000 bounty find on Enzyme, how out-of-scope assets can land you monster bugs, relayers and forwarders, why to look at deployment scripts, how Army training translates to being a cracked bug hunter, a fat juicy ALPHA DROP, and how to check the chain using your own archive node w/ semgrep, and much, much more ...

riptide and jack discuss how his audit competition/bounty platform Sherlock stacks up against the competition, why bounty hunters should focus their time there, how the platform has evolved over the years, addressing complaints with competitions to include: self-judging, spam, and insider bad behavior. Also how to create incentive based systems to obtain desired outcomes, what makes a good audit, and much, much more ...

riptide & nnez discuss his secret to becoming a top 15 ranked bug hunter with Immunefi and earning $1,000,000 in bug bounties, meritocracy in crypto and why that is a good thing, bounty negotiations, why bounties are easier than contests, defi security with TradFi participants, what protocols to look at and how to find bugs, looking outside of solidity, an ALPHA drop, and much much more ...  

riptide & riproprip discuss his $500,000 bug find on Raydium's CLMM, hunting bugs solo and the pitfalls of contests, how printing out calldata can help you find bugs, leveling up as a new hunter,  finding your motivation to devote time to bug hunting, and why to get and remain ripped and totally jacked at a young age with the first physical ALPHA DROP in the history of this podcast ... and much, much more anon

riptide & kankodu discuss his bug hunting techniques to keep him in the top #20 of the immunefi leaderboard, a deep dive on his recent $250k Balancer bug writeup that he kept under wraps for 2 years, bounty negotiations and how to shoot yourself in the foot with the dilution effect, the truth about the existence of the Indian bug hunting mafia ... and much more!

riptide & zigtur discuss tactics on bug hunting in competitions, why learning rust, Go, and solidity can be a lethal combo, deep dives on Cosmos SDK including where to look for bugs, competitions vs. bounty hunting, how zigtur has been dominating the recent contests, some serious ALPHA drops and much more (like what is his preferred French cheese) ... 

riptide & blockian (ControlZ_1337 & pwnmansh1p) discuss the unique Austrian method of hunting bugs while drinking raw milk and wearing augmented reality goggles, how the trio found a critical bug in LayerZero V1, laying low while ranked #38 on the Immunefi leaderboard, some very juicy ALPHA DROPs, career paths for bug hunters, and the importance of understanding the code better than the devs to find the most impactful bugs!

riptide & zachobront discuss how a humble book salesman started dominating audit contests to raking in $300k from Chainlink on a critical bug find! Also we explored how to expand your neural pathways to find new bugs, plus a deep dive ALPHA DROP on finding bugs in Optimism forks including the exact Go files to start looking at in Geth, making money leveraging your bug hunt knowledge to getting paid out in contests ... and much, much, much, much, more. 

riptide & 100proof discuss bounty negotiation tactics, human behavior, incentives, acting in good faith, and why bounty hunters must be paid. 100proof treats listeners to a detailed walkthrough of a juicy bug he found in Morpho. Riptide introduces the ALPHA DROP: on each episode both riptide and his guest will drop a piece of juicy bug hunting alpha to help you find your next big bounty

riptide & deadrosesxyz discuss hunting for bugs on the blockchain including techniques, secrets and tools of the trade, integrating LLMs into your workflow, getting paid, traits of a bounty hunter, and how bulgarian teenagers are taking over the space