Sky's context-building approach: Six months to zero-finding audits | Deniz Yilmaz

Sky's audits consistently return zero findings. When they don't, CTO Deniz Yilmaz investigates why the internal review process failed—not just the bugs. This approach maintains security across USDS, the third-largest stablecoin globally, through six-month engineer onboarding requirements, bi-weekly governance votes with execution delays, and mandatory OPSEC certification before engineers can sign multisig transactions.


ABOUT DENIZ YILMAZ

Deniz leads all technical teams at Sky Frontier Foundation (formerly MakerDAO), managing USDS—the world's largest decentralized stablecoin and third-largest stablecoin overall. Sky maintains an unbroken security record across years of operation as one of DeFi's oldest protocols. Deniz joined MakerDAO in 2021 as a Product Manager focused on governance tooling and grew into the CTO role through multiple organizational restructuring cycles. He studied engineering management and entered crypto through Amsterdam's meetup community in 2017, working first in enterprise blockchain consulting before joining DeFi during 2020's DeFi Summer. He now coordinates security frameworks across autonomous subdaos and oversees the spellcrafting governance process.