Date: 24.05.2024
Requested Amount:
- 135,000 ASTR (approx. $2,000 USD/mo) for 6 Month Contract
Objective:
ChainPatrol is a Real-Time Security Platform that aims to detect, block and manage takedowns of active malicious threats targeting the Astar Network, keeping the community and organization safe from bad actors.
Description:
As Astar Network continues to grow and scale, bad actors have an increasing incentive to target the community, organization, and staff members. Online threats vary in nature across each platform and ChainPatrol specializes in detecting, blocking, and taking down these active threats (impersonations, phishing links, wallet drainers).
Our aim is to get the support of the Treasury to become a valued security partner that works closely with Astar Network to protect its community, users, and builders through all of the key roadmap events, mitigating the impact of these potential threats on community members.
Background:
Hi Astarians,
My name is Dave Scalzo and I am the BD Lead and Head of Customer Success for ChainPatrol (a Web3 Cybersecurity company). We started our company approximately 2 years ago with the vision of making the Web3 Space safer.
Everyday, there are new online threats targeting organizations and users in the crypto industry. Our mission is to constantly adapt to these new threat vectors and ensure that our customers and their communities are protected from a variety of different threats across platforms.
ChainPatrol is a very accessible and transparent team supporting security 24/7 across all timezones.
Website: https://chainpatrol.io
This proposal will serve as the next step in complementing the security efforts of Astar Network.
Service Offering:
Platform
ChainPatrol’s Security Platform will support the Astar Network team in responding to threats and mitigating their impact by blocking within minutes of detection and managing takedowns.
Reporting Staff
ChainPatrols Reporting team will safeguard the Astar Network ecosystem. Our comprehensive security suite offers a robust dashboard and auto-detection system to report online threats targeting your brand across domains, social platforms, and marketplaces.
Service Excellence
By mitigating the risks of phishing, impersonation, and fake advertisements, ChainPatrol employs blocking approaches and takedown expertise to protect your community from malicious actors. Our proven success with leading projects such as Arbitrum, The Graph, Starknet, CoW Swap, Linea, and Curve Finance underscores our capability to prevent the loss of community funds swiftly and effectively. ChainPatrol can block malicious domains within 15 minutes across 20 leading crypto wallets, including Metamask, Coinbase Wallet, and Phantom.
Security Dashboard
Implementing ChainPatrol’s Security Suite will make Astar Network’s Web3 community significantly safer, increasing the operational costs for bad actors over time. Our enterprise protection features include the ChainPatrol Dashboard for viewing reports, active threats, metrics, and takedowns, as well as 24/7 automated monitoring for new threats across domains and social platforms.
Our takedown service covers domains, social platforms, and app stores, with social takedowns spanning across X.com, Discord, Telegram, Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook, and decentralized social platforms. Additionally, ChainPatrol Reporting Bots (for Discord and Slack) facilitate easy reporting from your team and community. By partnering with ChainPatrol, Astar Network can ensure a secure, trusted environment for its users and stakeholders.
Astar Case Study:
Since April 26th, ChainPatrol has worked closely with the Astar Network team to identify and preliminarily train our systems with the appropriate social profiles and organizational assets to begin our protection efforts.
Over this trial period, we have identified 266 potential threats to the Astar Network brand, including hundreds of fake X profiles. We have blocked domains across our Wallet Network, providing protection to the end user within 15 minutes of detection versus traditional approaches that take as long as 3 days.
While this is a great start to our brand protection efforts, after the approval of this proposal we will proceed with taking the threats down. This will be done by receiving the authorised representation of the Astar Network through the signing of key legal documents (Power of Attorney, Letter of Aurhorization, etc.)
We have tremendous experience in taking down 1000s of malicious social assets across (X, Discord, Telegram, App Stores, Medium, Farcaster, etc.),
Below are a few examples of threats that we have issued a warning through our Wallet Network, that we would be looking to go through full takedown, once given the authority.
Next Steps:
Once approved, ChainPatrol’s first action with Astar will be to work closely with staff to add all of the required assets necessary to train our systems.
Below are the initial key steps to the onboarding process:
- Collect Legal Documents
- Power of Attorney
- Letter of Authorization
- Trademarks Details
- Add all brand assets and URLs to the dashboard
- Add Social Profiles of key Astar Network Staff Members
- Add Discord or Slack Reporting Bot for the Community.
- Staff and community members will be able to both check and report suspected malicious assets, using the /check and /report commands
Ongoing Support in 2024
The success of our service comes from ensuring that we maintain an open and honest flow of communication between our team and the Astar community and staff. As such, after completion of onboarding, ChainPatrol will provide continuous support through the following actions:
- 24/7 Triaging of Threats Shared through Communication Channels (Telegram, Discord, Slack)
- Our team will maintain open daily communication with Astar to address threats detected by community and staff
- Monthly Threat Snapshot Reports
- Provides transparency to the metrics associated with our protection efforts
- Regular Touchpoint Meetings
- Stay up-to-date on key roadmap events upcoming, ensuring any new brand assets are appropriately added to our systems
Links & Contact Info:
ChainPatrol Website - https://chainpatrol.io
Introduction to ChainPatrol - https://chainpatrol.notion.site/Introduction-to-ChainPatrol
ChainPatrol Contact: Davide Scalzo
E-mail - davide@chainpatrol.io
Telegram - @dschainpatrol
ChainPatrol looks forward to being a trusted security partner of the Astar Network.
Thank you all for your consideration!