Barış Özmen Blog

Start with a gentle introduction to core cryptographic primitives, explore the basics of hardware acceleration, and then apply them to build optimized systems with ICICLE.

Interactive 𝒫𝔩𝔬𝔫𝒦 Zero-Knowledge Proof Tutorial

Contribute to paradigmxyz/absorb development by creating an account on GitHub.

The most requested feature by far has been support for stateful invariant tests.

A deep dive into my personal auditing mental model, designed to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and strategic thinking during audits. Learn how a structured mindset can help auditors assess risks. This post breaks down essential practical steps for auditors.

Fede donated $500k to free Roman Storm, Hardhat 3 beta, malicious IDE extensions

Foundry has a new stable release: v1.3.1!

Highlights include: forge lint, time-based campaigns and coverage guided fuzzing for invariant tests, 20%+ perf boost for tests, table tests and improved EIP-712 support

$ foundryup --update
$ foundryup -i stable

This repository contains list of resources to aid your journey of mastering Zero Knowledge Proofs. If you find any resource missing, you can create a pull request and be a contributor of the projec...

A blog post describing the new symbolic execution capabilities of Echidna include preliminary results and immediate future

Introduction


The GKR (Goldwasser–Kalai–Rothblum) protocol provides an efficient way to verify computations over arithmetic circuits, avoiding re-execution and reducing the verifier’s work. In our previous post, GKR protocol: a step-by-step example, we explored…

Fundamental security assumptions

This is a 2025 roadmap update detailing what each team is working on until the end of the year.

Unleashing the Hound: How AI Agents Find Deep Logic Bugs in Any Codebase Hound is a language-agnostic AI code security auditor that simulates the cognitive processes of human experts (paper link). It …

A massive NPM supply chain attack has compromised foundational packages like Chalk, affecting over 1 billion weekly downloads. We dissect the crypto-stealing malware and show you how to protect your projects immediately.