Candidate Profile

At Dedaub, our fundamental mission is to enhance the security and resilience of the Web3 ecosystem. We are committed to safeguarding decentralized platforms and building trust within the community. Joining the Arbitrum Security Council represents an opportunity for us to extend our positive impact by collaborating with like-minded professionals dedicated to safeguarding a major ecosystem. Our previous initiatives, such as being a founding member of the Security Alliance (https://securityalliance.org), memberships in other security councils, and security vulnerability disclosures on 3rd party protocols such as Uniswap reflect our commitment to this cause.

A secondary motivation is that we have a number of our partners and clients who rely on the security of the Arbitrum network, which further serves to align us with this role. Therefore, we believe that by contributing our expertise to the Arbitrum Security Council, we can help fortify the platform, ensuring a safer environment for its users and stakeholders.

Dedaub brings a wealth of experience in blockchain security and smart contract auditing. Our team has conducted security audits and security impact studies for the Ethereum Foundation, ensuring the Ethereum ecosystem evolves in a secure manner. Additionally, we are a member of the security council for zkSync, which presents similar challenges to being a security council member on Arbitrum. We are more than well-equipped to handle the SLA of this council. Our experience extends to auditing important projects within the Arbitrum ecosystem, such as GMX. We have also actively participated in high-stakes bug bounty programs and emergency response scenarios. One such example is our security disclosure on the Multichain bridge, whereby we helped move $1B in various tokens that were immediately at risk. There are many other examples of ecosystem threats whereby the Dedaub team was roped in to help in a war room scenario. Experiences like this demonstrate our ability to perform under pressure and deliver effective solutions. Being a founding member of the Security Alliance underscores our collaborative approach to industry-wide security challenges. Additionally, our role as a security advisor to the ArbitrumDAO Procurement Committee (ADPC) has allowed us to influence procurement strategies with a security-first mindset. This diverse experience equips us with the insights and skills necessary to contribute meaningfully to the Arbitrum Security Council. Finally we bring additional jurisdiction diversity to the council by being domiciled (in both form and substance) in Malta, which further derisks the operation of the security council. We operate our own Arbitrum nodes in our datacentre, and the organization is controlled by the two founders (No VCs).

Coinbase, Chainlink, zkSync, Ethereum, Pendle, GMX, EigenLayer