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What is a Liquidity Pool?
Jan 21
Liquidity pools enable users to buy and sell crypto on decentralized exchanges and other DeFi platforms without the need for centralized market makers. They play a crucial role in driving the feasibility of the existing DeFi technology stack.
What is a Smart Contract Audit?
Jan 20
A smart contract audit is a line-by-line inspection of a contract’s source code. At CertiK, our team of experienced auditors manually review smart contracts, identifying code errors and potential risks. We also use advanced mathematical approaches such as formal verification to analyze the logical soundness of contracts.
What is Decentralization?
Jan 19
Decentralization has become a buzzword with many people using the term to describe networks that may not be decentralized. In this blog, we will explain the differences between Centralized, Decentralized, and Distributed networks.
Announcements
CertiK Closes $80M Investment Round at a Nearly $1B...
Dec 1
CertiK recently closed an $80M, Series B2 round of financial funding. What makes this so interesting is that this round not only is the single largest round of fundraising for a company in the blockchain security space, but this funding now brings CertiK’s total valuation to nearly $1 Billion.
Navigating a CertiK Security Audit
Aug 18
The first time you check out a crypto security audit on the CertiK Security Leaderboard you might find the report a little daunting, confusing, and a little more like hieroglyphics than an essential asset to DYOR. Whether it’s a security audit report of your favorite ERC20, an intricate and robust DeFi audit, or you’re looking into the security of your go-to NFT platform, we’re here to help you navigate any CertiK audit like a champ.
Ask the Expert: Sheraz Arshad
Aug 18
Another day, another #AskTheExpert! This week we’re dishing out a treat with an insight into a day-in-the-life of Sheraz Arshad, CertiK Security Engineer, and all-around ace guy. Like all of our team members, Sheraz plays an essential role in the CertiK ecosystem and, by default, the security of the entire blockchain ecosystem.
Clients & Partners
CertiK integrates with Arbitrum and Optimism
Dec 3
all projects launching on either Optimism or Arbitrum will have full access to the Skynet monitoring and analytics suite should they choose to enable it for their project. The resources committed to bringing this feature were quite intense, in fact we had to pull all data off of both of these chains in order to integrate them with Skynet.
CertiK and Kava Labs Announce Partnership
Oct 6
CertiK is proud to announce a partnership with Kava Labs - a company that provides composable DeFi apps and services that can be accessed by anyone, anywhere in the world - to protect the Kava Ecosystem. This strategic partnership continues to demonstrate Certik’s leadership in the blockchain security space, while further expanding CertiK’s security suite into a new ecosystem.
Citadel.one Undertakes A CertiK Audit To Enhance DAO Security
Sept 9
In preparation for the move to DAO governance and operations, the team have pursued a CertiK Audit to ensure the security of the DAO, its participants, and the wider Citadel community.
Technology
What is a Liquidity Pool?
Jan 21
Liquidity pools enable users to buy and sell crypto on decentralized exchanges and other DeFi platforms without the need for centralized market makers. They play a crucial role in driving the feasibility of the existing DeFi technology stack.
What is a Smart Contract Audit?
Jan 20
A smart contract audit is a line-by-line inspection of a contract’s source code. At CertiK, our team of experienced auditors manually review smart contracts, identifying code errors and potential risks. We also use advanced mathematical approaches such as formal verification to analyze the logical soundness of contracts.
What is Decentralization?
Jan 19
Decentralization has become a buzzword with many people using the term to describe networks that may not be decentralized. In this blog, we will explain the differences between Centralized, Decentralized, and Distributed networks.
Videos
Towards Building Trustworthy Blockchain Systems with Ronghui Gu
Jun 15
CertiK | Ronghui Gu | BlockchainBrad | Formal Verification...
Jun 19
NEO DevCon 2019 CertiK
Feb 18