what's immunefi?
Immunefi is a leading bug bounty and security services platform dedicated to protecting cryptocurrency projects from vulnerabilities in Web3 ecosystems. It connects security researchers with protocols to identify and resolve bugs through incentivized bounties, fostering a collaborative defense against hacks and exploits. The platform has facilitated the discovery of thousands of vulnerabilities, enabling projects to enhance their smart contract security and safeguard user funds. In addition to bug bounties, Immunefi offers comprehensive security operations tools, including audit integrations, threat monitoring, and onchain protection services. By unifying various aspects of the security stack, it helps crypto teams manage risks efficiently and build trust within the decentralized finance community.
Immunefi recently paid $138,000 to 3 researchers for vulnerability reports.
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x.com/immunefiPaid out $138,000 to 3 security researchers for vulnerability reports over a two-week period ending approximately April 13, 2026.
Opened $1M audit competition for Jump Firedancer's V1 code.
Launched a bug bounty program in collaboration with edgeX_exchange with rewards up to $10,000.
Paid $50,000 bounty to security researcher @revofusion for discovering a High severity vulnerability.
Awarded $18,850 bounty payout to security researcher pks_eth for a Medium severity blockchain/DLT vulnerability report.
Alchemix relaunched its bug bounty program on Immunefi covering new v3 contracts with rewards up to $300K.
Paid a $50,000 bounty to security researcher bpop23293 for a critical blockchain/DLT vulnerability disclosure.
Paid $50,000 bounty to security researcher Liork for a High severity blockchain/DLT vulnerability.
Paid out $300,000 to security researcher @Ehsan1579 for a critical vulnerability report.
Paid out $20,000 to security researcher @DeltaXV_ for finding a High severity blockchain/DLT vulnerability through the bug bounty platform.
Received a pledge of 10,000 IMU tokens to hacker @0jovi0 as part of Hacker Pledging Season 2, an active incentive program where users can pledge IMU to hackers and earn IMU when those hackers find bugs.
Paid out $10,000 for a Medium severity smart contract bug found by larrythelorry.
Paid out a $100,000 bounty for a critical smart contract vulnerability discovered by 0xriptide's gregoai AI security agent.
Hosts a bug bounty program for Kamino Finance offering up to $1.5M for critical vulnerabilities and up to $100K for high-severity issues across Kamino's smart contracts and infrastructure.
CEO Mitchell Amador speaks at Rekt Security Summit in Cannes on 2026-03-27, covering AI-driven exploits, live war room defense, governance attacks, liquidation cascades, and wallet security failures.
Onboarded VesperFi as an early access customer to the Immunefi platform.
Paid $40,000 bounty to whitehat harry830622 for discovering a High severity smart contract vulnerability.
Onboarded Variational (variational_io) to the platform with a $100,000 bug bounty program.
Paid out $50,000 to security researcher @00xSEV for discovering a High-severity smart contract vulnerability.
Partners with Anchorage Digital to provide security for Porto, their institutional self-custody wallet.
Anchorage Digital Ventures purchased IMU tokens
Launched a bug bounty program with Ern (a non-custodial DeFi protocol on Ethereum) with a $50,000 maximum payout.
Paid $4.4M to whitehats in February 2026 and $2,669,950.92 in March 2026, also distributing $IMU payments to Season 1 Hacker Pledging participants on March 12.
Protects $190B in TVL across supported protocols as of February 2026.
Onboarded Ondo Finance as a Magnus early access customer using the unified security dashboard to manage on-chain security.
Onboarded Agnidex with a $10,000 bug bounty program.
Onboarded Kleidi Wallet to the security ecosystem with a $50,000 bug bounty program and access to the full platform including bounties, audits, competitions, brand protection, and monitoring.
Received a security report from Immunefi regarding Balancer's reCLAMM pools, which were paused for investigation.
Royco Protocol joined the Immunefi security ecosystem with a $250,000 bug bounty program.
Partnered with Katana to provide security services including an $80,000 bug bounty program, audits, audit competitions, onchain monitoring, PR reviews, and brand protection, granting full Immunefi platform access.
Launched bug bounty program with HermeticaFi for their hBTC Bitcoin yield vault with a $100k reward pool.
Paid a $3 million bug bounty to Reserve Protocol engineer Akshat Mittal for a vulnerability discovery.
Protects 70% of all DeFi TVL as of February 2026.
Prevented $25 billion in losses based on severity and exploitability of disclosed vulnerabilities.
Paid out over $130 million in bounty rewards.
80% of customers received valid critical vulnerability disclosures via the platform.
Paid $3,000,000 to security researcher ily2 for a critical smart contract bug, marking the largest single payout in web3 security and largest in over 3 years.
Launched a new bug bounty program in collaboration with Rootstock Labs with a $200,000 budget to secure Rootstock's DeFi layer on Bitcoin.
Paid $40,000 bounty to @_blockian for a vulnerability, pledged 30,000 IMU tokens.
Scheduled platform maintenance on 2026-02-09 from 3 PM UTC to 5 PM UTC with 30-minute downtime, affecting bug submissions and dashboard access.
Reached an all-time high of 15.7 million IMU pledged behind 144 security researchers as of March 30, 2026, up from 14.6M on February 16, 2026.
Added to Crypto.com's TWAP Trading Bot with support for automated trade execution.
Experienced significant token distribution delays due to distribution platform provider Magna receiving close to 200,000 requests per second.
Announces collaboration event with USD1 and World Liberty Financial scheduled for 2026-01-26.
Launched Launchpool campaign on Bitget exchange from January 22 to January 28, 2026, offering 29,100,000 IMU tokens to users who lock BGB or IMU.
IMU token is scheduled to be listed on Bybit spot trading platform on January 22, 2026 at 2pm UTC.
Serves over 650 protocols, with over 80,000 registered users.
Achieved over $90 million in trading volume while maintaining a market cap below $600,000.
Launched the Immunefi Firewall powered by Dedaub, a protocol-controlled firewall that blocks exploits in real time while maintaining composability, achieving a 96% detection rate when tested on 525 hack contracts and 20,900 benign contracts.
Sponsored the buidl_conf conference held in Lisbon starting January 7, 2026.
Spotlights Lombard Finance as a customer on the platform.
Moonbeam Network joins as a customer through a customer spotlight announcement, expanding coverage to the Polkadot-based smart contract platform that provides Ethereum tool compatibility.
Ribbon Finance confirms $2.7M exploit of legacy vaults despite active Immunefi bug bounty, with perpetrator bypassing the bounty program.
Threshold Network renews collaboration with the platform, expanding security coverage across newly released applications and website with access to consolidated security platform and unified risk monitoring dashboard.
Flare Networks is announced as an Immunefi customer in a customer spotlight feature, with the multi-chain data availability and interoperability infrastructure provider now using the bug bounty platform.
Immunefi conducts layoffs affecting bug triager positions and adds SEAL Safe Harbor legal framework integration to its bug bounty platform.
Security researcher Liork earns $100,000 bounty for their first report on the platform and receives Hunt Points, demonstrating active bug bounty program operations.
IMU token added to Coinbase Roadmap, with trading launch contingent on market-making support and sufficient technical infrastructure.
IMU token is introduced as the utility token for the Security OS platform, earned and used by protocols, security researchers, and community members for contributing high-quality threat data to strengthen the security infrastructure.
Immunefi collaborates with Coinbase/Base security team to present Episode 11 of their bi-weekly Security Series on Friday at 1pm ET, focusing on response strategies for hacked projects.
Aera Finance joins as new Immunefi Magnus customer, adding autonomous treasury management protocol to the security platform's client base.
SSV Network joins as new Immunefi Magnus customer, adding Ethereum distributed validator infrastructure provider to the security platform's client base.
Yearn Finance joins as new Immunefi Magnus customer, adding the DeFi yield automation protocol to the security platform's client base.
IPOR Protocol joins as new Immunefi Magnus customer, adding an onchain interest rate derivatives platform to the security service's client base.
A $200,000 bug bounty payment reveals that security researchers earn Hunt Points toward the IMU airdrop through bug reports. The platform announces a future feature allowing users to back security researchers and share in their IMU rewards.
CoinList sale has ended.
Solana Name Service joins as new Immunefi Magnus customer, adding the Solana ecosystem's human-readable identity provider to the security platform's client base.
Pareto Credit joins as new Immunefi Magnus customer, adding institutional private credit marketplace to the security platform's client base.
Granite Protocol joins as new Immunefi Magnus customer, adding Bitcoin yield protocol to the security platform's client base.
0x protocol confirms use of Immunefi's security services to protect their infrastructure and integrators from threats. (ID: 1993402122277441655)
Swell Network joins as new Immunefi Magnus customer, adding another client to the security platform.
Token generation event with ticker IMU receives highest likelihood rating (confirmed/highly likely) for occurrence before the end of the year.
Token sale has ended, with total subscription figures not yet disclosed. (ID: 1992530772532851125)
Shield My Bags feature launches on the platform, powered by Zerion API integration, allowing users to check portfolio safety in two clicks.
Team clarifies that expected circulating supply at TGE is around 12%, not 35% as previously shown on CoinList sale page.
Shield My Bags, powered by the token, reaches 9,000+ users and reviews $4M+ in assets within days of launch.
Launched token sale on CoinList platform in 2025. stake.link joins Immunefi Magnus as customer for decentralized Chainlink staking infrastructure.
Code Review Agent feature launches in Immunefi Magnus, providing AI-powered automation for PR reviews to detect and fix vulnerabilities during development.
Immunefi Magnus adds Daimo, a global stablecoin payments platform, as a new customer.
Token sale extended by 24 hours from original closing time. $IMU prepares to go live on exchanges following the sale conclusion.
CoinList token sale deadline extended to November 20 at 17:00 UTC following Cloudflare outage, as more than 2,000 purchasers continue completing purchases.
$IMU token lists on upcoming pre-market.
Partnership with Shield3 strengthens incident response and preparedness capabilities through Immunefi Magnus platform.
Token sale on CoinList closes in approximately 24 hours with participant count reaching 5,394, up from 5,100 at launch.
Ethereum Name Service becomes an Immunefi customer.
Offers IMU token rewards to token holders who pledge IMU when whitehat @_blockian discovers bugs.
Partnership with Range brings continuous monitoring and threat intelligence expertise to Immunefi Magnus, strengthening the unified security stack.
Token sale on CoinList goes live with 5,100 registered participants.
Polymarket, the world's largest on-chain prediction market, joins as an Immunefi customer.
Token sale on CoinList closes in exactly 72 hours.
Second Hunt Points distribution goes live on the Dashboard, distributing rewards to security researchers.
Matchain joins as an Immunefi customer, developing modular infrastructure for scalable, verifiable computation that connects decentralized systems with real-world applications.
Total payouts to security researchers reach $125 million, with 30 researchers becoming millionaires on the platform.
$IMU token sale on CoinList ends November 19 at 5pm UTC with $0.01337 price per token, $133.7M FDV (73% discount from private round), 3.74% of 10B supply allocation, and 100% TGE unlock.
Hosts token sale AMA on CoinList platform featuring CEO Mitchell Amador to discuss the ongoing token sale.
Injective, a Layer 1 blockchain built for next-gen finance, joins as an Immunefi Magnus customer.
Releases Security OS roadmap and discloses Magnus platform protects over $81B in assets with 170+ early access members including Chainlink, Optimism, Avalanche, ENS, Lido, Polygon, and Aave.
Announces partnership with Scroll_ZKP to power their Security Subsidy Program via the Magnus platform.
Token goes live on CoinList in less than 24 hours, supported by Immunefi Foundation.
VeChain, a Layer 1 blockchain built for enterprise adoption, joins as an Immunefi Magnus customer.