🗓 Weekly Web3 Security Roundup | Jun 8 - Jun 14 🚨 Spotlight on 4 notable incidents | ~$5.98M lost this week Featuring a vulnerability breakdown and in-depth analysis of selected key cases:https://lnkd.in/g3wmJwEd
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Full-stack blockchain security and compliance solutions, built for real-world risk teams.
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BlockSec provides full-stack blockchain security and compliance solutions for crypto organisations. Our capabilities span smart contract audits, real-time threat monitoring and blocking, and AML plus onchain forensic investigations. We help security, risk, and compliance teams prevent incidents and accelerate response through practical, operational workflows. We work with protocols, exchanges, wallets, and other crypto businesses, combining security research, onchain intelligence, and engineering to strengthen trust and resilience across the ecosystem. Trusted by 500+ customers, BlockSec supports crypto exchanges, wallets, OTC desks, and financial institutions, as well as regulators and law enforcement across 50+ jurisdictions.
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- 51-200 employees
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- Hong Kong
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- 2021
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Cryptoassets, Blockchain Security, Regulatory Compliance, Crypto Compliance, AML, CFT, Financial Crime, Fraud Prevention, Crypto Transaction Monitoring, KYT, Wallet Screening, Crypto Risk Scoring, Compliance Operations, Crypto Forensics, Crypto Investigations, Smart Contract Auditing, and Crypto Audit
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🛡️ When AI agents start paying on their own, every payment needs to be screened and accountable — not just signed. Glad to bring the Trust & Compliance layer to the Agentic Payment Whitepaper — real-time screening, address risk scoring, on-chain tracing, and KYT/AML built for machine speed. Building it alongside interlace.money, X-Agent, Cobo, Stable, Conflux Network, Bitget Wallet, and HETU protocol. 🤝 Whitepaper out within 1–2 months. Stay tuned. 👀 #AgenticPayment #Web3Security #Compliance #InterlaceMoney
We’re excited to announce the Agentic Payment Whitepaper, initiated by interlace.money together with 7 ecosystem partners. This whitepaper defines a shared vision, architecture, and standards for AI‑agent‑driven payments — a critical step toward the emerging Agentic Payment Economy. 🧱 The layers & partners: 🤖 Agent Application – X-Agent 💳 Payment Execution – interlace.money (Initiator) 🔐 Governance & Control – Cobo 🛡️ Trust & Compliance – BlockSec 💵 Stablecoin Settlement – Stable ⛓️ Blockchain Infrastructure – Conflux Network 🌊 Liquidity Orchestration & User Access – Bitget Wallet 🔗 Causal Verification – HETU protocol (The company names are listed in no particular order.) 📄 Expected release: within the next 1–2 months. Stay tuned. #Whitepaper #AgenticPayment #InterlaceMoney #Web3
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🚨 OFAC just sanctioned a Sinaloa Cartel network for laundering fentanyl proceeds on-chain. We traced the six sanctioned Ethereum addresses with MetaSleuth and found the money moving almost entirely through centralized exchange deposit addresses, three Binance deposit addresses alone handled over $4M, plus two more likely-connected addresses that aren't even on the list yet. For exchanges and payment firms, deposit flows are exactly where screening belongs. Full breakdown on our blog 👇 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gjjMJ4Xc #AML #CryptoCompliance #Web3Security
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🗓 Weekly Web3 Security Roundup | Jun 1 - Jun 7 🚨 This week’s focus: Zcash Orchard Counterfeiting Vulnerability No confirmed exploitation, but the underlying ZK soundness bug triggered an emergency upgrade and major market impact. Breaking down the critical ZK soundness bug behind the counterfeiting risk: https://lnkd.in/gUzMReda
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Glad to have joined the FinTech Association of Hong Kong's Q2 Digital Asset Integrity Forum, hosted by EY. One question anchored the room: how do we share intelligence fast and lawfully, so technology can fight technology? 🔍 That's exactly the problem we build for — real-time on-chain monitoring only matters if the intelligence can move across institutions at the speed attackers operate. Looking forward to the DAIF follow-up paper. 🤝 #DigitalAssets #Web3Security #Compliance #HongKong
The FinTech Association of Hong Kong Q2 Digital Asset Integrity Forum, hosted by EY, underscored a simple reality: Hong Kong is now on the front line of the global fight against cyber‑enabled, cross‑sector financial crime. Senior representatives from the Hong Kong Police Force, international banks, virtual asset trading platforms, global analytics providers and policy bodies joined to confront a fraud landscape that is evolving faster than traditional controls and siloed information‑sharing frameworks. Anchored on recent discussions at the The Wolfsberg Group Forum and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Virtual Asset Contact Group, the session focused on a clear mandate for Hong Kong: align our response to the speed, sophistication and cross-border nature of today's threats. Ultimately the discussion zeroed in on one practical question: how do we enable banks, VATPs and law enforcement to share intelligence quickly and lawfully so that technology can fight technology? In the coming weeks, the DAIF will release a follow‑up paper that distils these discussions into concrete proposals for Hong Kong’s public‑private partnership infrastructure and digital asset ecosystem. Our objective is straightforward: to help Hong Kong move from fragmented initiatives to a coherent, world‑leading model for digital asset integrity and cross‑sector fraud disruption. Hong Kong Police Force | Bank for International Settlements – BIS | Financial Services Development Council | HSBC Hong Kong | Citi | BNY Investments |AMINA Bank | UBS | OKX | BitMEX | EY | 3Points Compliance | BlockSec | TransUnion | FinTech Association of Hong Kong
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Interesting discussion with Rachel Wolcott on a growing issue in stablecoin adoption: issuer freeze powers. As stablecoins become financial infrastructure, institutions need to assess not only reserves and liquidity, but also governance and control mechanisms. Transparency around freeze capabilities will be increasingly important for risk management and compliance. #Stablecoin #Compliance #AML #BlockSec https://lnkd.in/gEThqu6U
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Proud to be part of the SEAL Certifications initiative! 🎉 At BlockSec, we see this as an important step toward more standardized, credible, and transparent security auditing across Web3, helping build a more mature security assurance framework for the ecosystem.
SEAL Certifications are open for business. 🎉 Since publishing the RFC in late 2025, we've run: - Analyses with 25+ protocols across DeFi, staking, treasury management, and infrastructure - Feedback sessions with 10+ auditing firms and security researchers. As a result, the framework is stable and the process is proven. We're now moving from pilot validation into active certification. If your protocol is ready to get certified, these firms are accredited and taking clients now. Auditware, BlockSec, ChainSecurity, Composable Security ⛓️💥, Consensys Diligence, Cyfrin, DeFiSafety, Hacken, Blockchain Security & Compliance, HackenProof | Web3 bug bounty platform 🇺🇦, Oak Security, OpenZeppelin, Opsek, Quantstamp, Inc., Shield3, Sigma Prime, Statemind, Trail of Bits, Wonderland, Zellic, ZeroShadow. Already working with one of them? Ask about SEAL Certifications starting today. https://lnkd.in/eWc67yWt
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For more incident details of the month, you can follow BlockSec’s Blog for our weekly round-up: https://lnkd.in/gygac2AJ
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🗓 Weekly Web3 Security Roundup | May 25 - May 31 🚨 Spotlight on 5 notable incidents | ~$16M lost this week Featuring a vulnerability breakdown and in-depth analysis of selected key cases: https://lnkd.in/gu-KGYPG
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🇲🇴 BEYOND Expo 2026 · Macao · May 28 BlockSec Co-founder Yajin Zhou (Associate Professor, CUHK) joined Panel 1 of the Web2+3 Commerce Forum, "Navigating the Regulatory Maze: Building Compliant Cross-Border Payment Networks," alongside EO Hao (FutureMoney Group), Wayne Huang (KUN Global), and Esther Jiang (Conflux HK), moderated by Joy Zhou (ME Group / Desun Singularity Tech). The panel examined how licensed platforms, global merchants, and regulators can build compliant cross-border payment networks without sacrificing speed, a question sitting at the intersection of policy, product, and on-chain risk monitoring. Thanks to BEYOND Expo, ChainNeXT, and every fellow panelist for the conversation. Compliant payment rails are a multi-party effort, and BlockSec will keep building. #BEYONDExpo2026 #Stablecoin #CrossBorderPayments #Compliance
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