Portfolio

Bug bounties, audit competition results, whitehat work, and CTF awards from my security research.

Bug bounty

  • Story Protocol

    Jul 2025

    Critical, $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.

  • PancakeSwap

    Medium–High, $10,000 bounty

    Bug in the MasterChef contract.

    Bug bountyDeFi
  • Sky

    High, $5,000 bounty

    Bug in the voting website.

    Bug bountyWeb
  • Zircuit

    Critical, $1,000 bounty

    Bug in the P2P node.

    Bug bountyNode
  • 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.

    Bug bountyWebKakao
  • 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    Comment permissions were checked against the activity ID in the URL, so a user whose access had been revoked could still read and delete private comments.

    Bug bountyWebKakao
  • Kakao Developers — KV-2026-399

    Stored Cross-Site Scripting

    Stored XSS via the app name on the Kakao Login consent guide page.

    Bug bountyWebKakao
  • Midnight Node — consensus split

    Sep 2026

    High (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.

    RustNodeConsensus
  • Apple ImageIO — CVE-2026-28990

    May 2026

    Processing a maliciously crafted image could corrupt process memory. Fixed in iOS and iPadOS 26.5.

Audit competitions

  • Solayer

    Nov 2025

    Security researcher

    Cantina competition for Solayer's Solana programs. Rewarded findings.

    SolanaRustCantina
  • The Garden — 1st place

    May 2025

    Security researcher

    Cantina security competition for The Garden. Placed 1st out of 230+ researchers after a deep dive into Uniswap V4.

    Uniswap V4DeFiCantina
  • Usual sUSDe — 3rd place

    Feb 2025

    Security researcher

    Usual sUSDe private competition on Cantina — my first private competition.

    DeFiStablecoinCantina
  • DAAO — #8

    Jan 2025

    Security researcher

    Cantina competition for DAAO. Finished 8th with six submissions.

    DeFiCantina
  • Lambo.win (Code4rena)

    Dec 2024

    Warden

    Credited on findings in the published Code4rena report for Lambo.win.

    EVMCode4rena
  • Other Cantina competitions

    2024 – present

    Security researcher

    Rewarded findings in public competitions including Blast, Citrea, Telcoin, Tensor, Farcaster Attestation, Reserve Protocol, Symbiotic, and RedStone.

    EVMSolanaCantina

Whitehat

  • PaymentProcessor V2 exploit — ~2,000 NFTs rescued

    Sep 2026

    Whitehat

    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

  • SCAN 2026 — 10th place (Finals)

    Sep 2026

    Team Tardigrades

    Finals held on-site in Seoul during Korea Blockchain Week.

  • Remedy CTF — 3rd place

    Jan 2025

    Team KimchiPremium

    Web3 CTF hosted by Hexens.

  • SCAN 2024 — 9th place (Finals)

    Nov 2024

    Team ohiryeojoa

    Also placed 3rd in the preliminary round.

  • Blaz CTF — 1st place

    Sep 2024

    Team KimchiPremium

    Our team solved every challenge and took six first bloods.

  • Digital Forensic Challenge 2023 — 1st place (University)

    2023

    Team ForensicGPT

    Forensics
  • Digital Forensic Challenge 2022 — 1st place (University)

    2022

    Team ISEGYE_IDOL

    Forensics

Community

  • Cantina Fellowship — Resident & Judge

    2025 – present

    Resident & Judge

    Joined the Cantina Fellowship Program as a Resident in January 2025 and started judging competitions the following month.