Giovanni Vignone (Octane Security) on Protecting Onchain Assets (EP.682)
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Security is probably the most important and under discussed issue facing the crypto industry today. According to Chainalysis, over $2,200,000,000 of crypto was stolen in 2024 alone, and per data from Elliptic, North Korean adversaries have been responsible for an estimated $6,000,000,000 in crypto theft, and that number continues to rise. Unfortunately, AI is only enhancing the capabilities of attackers and the ease of exploiting vulnerable code. Models can and are being leveraged by hackers to identify potential vulnerabilities, while at the same time, we are seeing an increase in the amount
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Gio, great to see you. Let's dive right in. What do people not know or get wrong about security and crypto currently?
I think there's a lot of things that go into security, especially in the crypto ecosystem, mainly because the risk profile in this space is probably the highest out of any space I've ever seen. Effectively, all hacks lead to the equivalent of bank account liquidations where end users actually lose digital assets, tokens, real money. So security is really important, and I think a lot of people actually overlook how important it is. I've seen a lot of people in my time working in this space think that a single manual audit is equivalent to being secure when that's really not the case. My definit
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