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October 26, 2025

Cosmos Labs' 3 pivots in 6 months: Timeboxing experiments to find PMF | Barry Plunkett

This week Barry Plunkett, co-CEO of Cosmos Labs, joins our CEO Jack Sanford to discuss prioritizing security in development, Cosmos Hub deployment, and more!

Cosmos Labs killed two strategic bets in six months by timeboxing experiments to three months with quantitative kill criteria. Barry Plunkett, co-CEO of Cosmos Labs, explains how they systematically tested ZK-based IBC bridging, Cosmos Hub deployment, and enterprise infrastructure after the Interchain Foundation acquired Skip Protocol. Their security model mirrors this discipline: HackerOne reports route directly to code authors, line-by-line PR reviews catch critical bugs before external audits, and monthly coordinated patches prevent validator burnout across 200 chains.In this episode, Barry shares the complete framework for testing strategic pivots, why following "accidental traction" from Fortune 500 pilots beat their predetermined roadmap, and how making security "your problem, not the next guy's" creates engineering accountability that traditional audit firms can't match.

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Centrifuge's serial audits: 6 security reviews that reshaped RWA architecture | Jeroen Offerijns

In this episode, Jeroen walks through Centrifuge's controversial security methodology, their co-authorship of the ERC-7540 standard with competitor Maple Finance, and why they're building freely immutable infrastructure modeled on Maker's 6-year-old vat contract that has never needed an upgrade.

October 13, 2025

Validator sniping: How to harvest IP addresses to redirect MEV | Sebastian Bürgel (Gnosis)

This week, the VP of Technology at Gnosis, Sebastian Burgel, joins Jack Sanford to discuss network-layer security gaps, the early days of building on Ethereum, and more.

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Safe's $60B security stack: Formal verification, audits, and $1M bounties | Richard Meissner

This week Richard Meissner, the Co-Founder of Safe joins Jack Sanford to discuss securing $60B in TVL, the future of Ethereum and more.

September 17, 2025

Securing $23 billion in restaked assets with Anto Joseph, Principal Security Engineer at Eigen Labs

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September 11, 2025

How to secure $70 billion in DeFi: Aave's approach to Web3 security w/ Ernesto Boado

Ernesto Boado explains how Aave protected $70 billion in DeFi with a strategic security focus, upgrades, DAO coordination, and flawless documentation—showing the real wins and challenges of scaling and innovating in Web3 without losing resilience.

September 11, 2025

Step Multisig Process Protecting Billions | Chris von Hessert

Polygon protects billions through a rigorous 13-step multisig process. In this episode, Chris von Hessert breaks down the real challenges, ethical dilemmas, and strategic truths of Web3 security. Essential for anyone serious about moving beyond crypto hype.

October 22, 2025

Security Lessons from the oldest bug bounty program w/ Fredrik Svantes (Ethereum Foundation) Sherlock Podcast

Fredrik Svantes runs Ethereum's $2 million audit competitions and the world's oldest blockchain bug bounty program—here's how he filters AI spam from real vulnerabilities and secures trillion-dollar infrastructure. From World of Warcraft gold farming detection to protocol-level security at Ethereum Foundation, Fredrik reveals the systematic approaches that actually work at scale.