Hexens
hexens.io
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Total raised
$4.2M
1 round on record
Latest round
$4.2M
Seed · Oct 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
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Long since its last round
48 months since the last round · not hiring
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Oct 2022 | $4.2M | IOSG Ventures lead | uk.investing.com |
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Overview
Hexens is a blockchain security firm providing smart contract audits, protocol reviews and offensive security testing. Its researchers have found critical vulnerabilities in major layer-2 and zero-knowledge systems. The company works with large protocols as well as institutional clients entering Web3.
News
Quantum Key Distribution: From Theory to Real-World Attacks
Explore how Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) works, from the BB84 protocol and quantum principles to real-world attacks such as photon-number splitting and detector blinding, and how newer approaches address these challenges.
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Glider by Hexens: The Code Query Engine for Smart Contract Security at Scale
Glider by Hexens turns every verified EVM contract into queryable data. Hunt smart contract vulnerabilities across whole blockchains in minutes, not months.
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The Exploit Is the Disclosure: Why On-Chain Hacks Spread Faster Than Patches
In web3, the exploit is the disclosure. It starts a race to copy, not to patch. In a couple of weeks we turned 12 live exploits into detection queries and found 198 confirmed-vulnerable contracts still running on Ethereum and BSC.
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Arbitrary Struct Hijack in Aptos Move VM
TL;DR -- A stale type-tag cache in the Aptos Move VM lets a recycled StructNameIndex map to the wrong StructTag after a partial cache flush, enabling storage-level type confusion. An attacker aligns a look-alike struct onto a victim resource and reads/wri
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Understanding Differential Privacy: Part 2
A hands-on guide to DP-SGD: how it works, how VaultGemma uses it at LLM scale, and what private vs non-private training actually costs on CIFAR-10.
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Understanding Differential Privacy: Part 1
A practical guide to differential privacy: the attacks that motivate it, the formal definition, trust models, mechanisms, and privacy accounting.
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Gröbner Bases in Cryptanalysis Part2: Attacking Poseidon
Learn how Gröbner bases break cryptographic hash functions. We attack a reduced-round Poseidon instance, recovering a preimage from its digest using SageMath.
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Gröbner Bases in Cryptanalysis Part 1: The Underlying Algebra
This post develops the full algebraic machinery, covering polynomial rings, ideals, monomial orderings, and Buchberger's algorithm, and demonstrates the theory with a complete step-by-step example of computing a reduced Gröbner basis and recovering soluti
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Encrypted Vector Databases Without Sacrificing Search
A technical deep-dive into cryptographically secure vector databases, covering embedding attacks, why exact distance-preserving encryption fails, and the Scale-and-Perturb scheme
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Yerevan
Armenia
HQ
London
United Kingdom
Regional office
71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, GB
Financials
Total raised
$4.2M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2022 | $4.2M | Details |