In January, we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of our first ever published security audit report. At the time of our first review, security consulting for privacy-enhancing and distributed technologies was a fledgling industry, and there were very few companies, like us, offering our specialized knowledge and expertise for security analysis
In Part 1 of this blog, we delved into the constantly changing world of Web3, unveiling the opportunities it presents. In Part 2, we’re continuing this exploration with a focus on the types of projects receiving support, with a particular emphasis on improving security — a critical yet often overlooked
This past year, we’ve started investigating new approaches to our security audit reports and recently we’re experimenting with structuring the data to be more usable by additional audiences and systems, along with publishing our reports in new ways to make them more accessible. Reports as Bitcoin Digital Artifacts We have
In recent years the Web3 space, known for its innovation and community driven approaches, has witnessed a significant shift in its approach to funding and supporting projects. We have identified more than 150 funding opportunities since we began researching them in October 2023, and new grant programs are continuously emerging.
Our work is more than a business for us: We see it as an avenue to advance the use of distributed technologies that empower users, especially their ability to control their own data, since privacy is a human right. These numbers demonstrate how our years of experience can directly contribute
The belief that everyone has a right of privacy, including data privacy, is the base of all the work that we do at Least Authority. Key aspects of building privacy into systems are ensuring that users are aware of the use of their data and enabling them to have choice
Over the last few years we’ve been expanding our Ecosystem Support by including various Security Consulting offerings to meet the needs of the different ecosystems with which we are working. Although our main offering is still Security Audits of codebases and specifications for projects, we also offer consultation sessions, and
Through our work, we have the opportunity to speak with various people in the FinTech, Cybersecurity, and Web3 fields. Recently, one pattern emerged: there is increasing interest in advanced cryptography techniques and protocols, such as zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC), and Fully-Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), which can improve users’