The crypto ecosystem loses billions of dollars every year to hacks, exploits, and fraud. Some of those losses are inevitable. Many are not. SEAL exists to close the gap, and right now, through May 15, you have an opportunity to amplify our work through Giveth's Ethereum Security Quadratic Funding round.
SEAL is a nonprofit made up of security researchers, engineers, and advocates working across the full spectrum of crypto security. Five of our initiatives are participating in this QF round, and every donation counts because of how it shapes the matching pool.
Here's how quadratic funding works: the number of individual contributors matters as much as the dollar amounts. A project with 100 small donors receives more in matching funds than one with a single large donation of the same total. That means even a small contribution to each project meaningfully increases SEAL's share of the matching pool. Spreading support across all five is the highest-impact way to participate.
Our five projects:
SEAL 911 is a free, 24/7 emergency hotline connecting anyone facing an active exploit with a vetted team of world-class security researchers. When funds are at risk, this is the first call to make.
SEAL Intel gathers and distributes real-time threat intelligence across the ecosystem, from phishing campaigns to state-sponsored attackers, so that defenders aren't operating blind.
SEAL Frameworks is an open-source library of security best practices covering operational security, wallet management, incident response, and DPRK threat mitigation. It's designed to be adopted incrementally by any organization, regardless of size.
SEAL Certifications is a modular certification program built around the threats crypto organizations actually face. Certifications are assessed by accredited auditors and recorded as on-chain attestations.
SEAL Safe Harbor is an on-chain legal agreement that protocols can adopt to pre-authorize whitehat rescues during active exploits. Whitehats who recover funds are eligible for bounties, and legal defense coverage is available through the Security Research Legal Defense Fund.
Our work is free to the ecosystem. SEAL doesn't charge protocols to use SEAL 911, access the frameworks library, or adopt Safe Harbor. Donations and the matching funds they generate are what keep it running.
The round closes May 15. Donate to all five projects before then, share this with your network, and help us make the most of the matching pool.