Portfolio
Bug bounties, audit competition results, whitehat work, and CTF awards from my security research.
Bug bounty
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Story Protocol
Jul 2025Critical, $75,000 bounty
Critical bug in the validator, reported through Cantina. My first critical from a bug bounty—LLMs played a big role in finding it.
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PancakeSwap
Medium–High, $10,000 bounty
Bug in the MasterChef contract.
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Sky
High, $5,000 bounty
Bug in the voting website.
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Zircuit
Critical, $1,000 bounty
Bug in the P2P node.
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Kakao Developers — KV-2026-401
Authentication / authorization
A missing check in admin-api allowed tampering with the cross-border personal data transfer notice on any app's Kakao Login consent screen.
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KakaoStory — KV-2026-400
Authentication / authorization
Comment permissions were checked against the activity ID in the URL, so a user whose access had been revoked could still read and delete private comments.
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Kakao Developers — KV-2026-399
Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Stored XSS via the app name on the Kakao Login consent guide page.
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Midnight Node — consensus split
Sep 2026High (CVSS 7.5)
The strict transaction-validation cache key omitted the block time, so nodes could disagree on block validity—leading to a consensus split and permanent sync failure. Fixed in midnight-node 1.0.300.
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Apple ImageIO — CVE-2026-28990
May 2026Processing a maliciously crafted image could corrupt process memory. Fixed in iOS and iPadOS 26.5.
Audit competitions
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Solayer
Nov 2025Security researcher
Cantina competition for Solayer's Solana programs. Rewarded findings.
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The Garden — 1st place
May 2025Security researcher
Cantina security competition for The Garden. Placed 1st out of 230+ researchers after a deep dive into Uniswap V4.
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Usual sUSDe — 3rd place
Feb 2025Security researcher
Usual sUSDe private competition on Cantina — my first private competition.
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DAAO — #8
Jan 2025Security researcher
Cantina competition for DAAO. Finished 8th with six submissions.
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Lambo.win (Code4rena)
Dec 2024Warden
Credited on findings in the published Code4rena report for Lambo.win.
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Other Cantina competitions
2024 – presentSecurity researcher
Rewarded findings in public competitions including Blast, Citrea, Telcoin, Tensor, Farcaster Attestation, Reserve Protocol, Symbiotic, and RedStone.
Whitehat
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PaymentProcessor V2 exploit — ~2,000 NFTs rescued
Sep 2026Whitehat
When Limit Break's PaymentProcessor V2 was exploited on September 25, 2026, I rescued about 2,000 NFTs from affected wallets and returned them through the nftsaresafu.xyz claim site.
Awards
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SCAN 2026 — 10th place (Finals)
Sep 2026Team Tardigrades
Finals held on-site in Seoul during Korea Blockchain Week.
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Remedy CTF — 3rd place
Jan 2025Team KimchiPremium
Web3 CTF hosted by Hexens.
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SCAN 2024 — 9th place (Finals)
Nov 2024Team ohiryeojoa
Also placed 3rd in the preliminary round.
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Blaz CTF — 1st place
Sep 2024Team KimchiPremium
Our team solved every challenge and took six first bloods.
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Digital Forensic Challenge 2023 — 1st place (University)
2023Team ForensicGPT
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Digital Forensic Challenge 2022 — 1st place (University)
2022Team ISEGYE_IDOL
Community
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Cantina Fellowship — Resident & Judge
2025 – presentResident & Judge
Joined the Cantina Fellowship Program as a Resident in January 2025 and started judging competitions the following month.