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openzeppelin.com
Company blog · openzeppelin.com/newssecuritybusiness
openzeppelin.com is the company blog at openzeppelin.com, writing about security and business. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this site's pages on smart contract security audits and its standard contract library for Ethereum builders. They cite these as resources, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
OpenZeppelin is the security standard for onchain finance: the smart contracts, standards, and security services behind the industry's most critical systems.
Most-linked posts?
- /contracts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-17
- /contracts/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-28
What Hacker News says?
Sure. Best auditor is https://openzeppelin.com/security-audits/ . Second might be https://www.trailofbits.com . Here's the audit that just finished: https://github.com/OriginProtocol/security/blob/master/audit...
Comment linking /security-audits/
on “Cryptocurrency loan platform implodes in $130M hack”Submitted $292M Lost, Zero Bugs Found: Lessons from the RsETH Bridge Exploit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere already is: https://openzeppelin.com/ Most people use them for their projects, but you don't hear about them because they don't make it to hacker news as only crypto pessimism is upvoted here.
Comment linking /
on “$34M permanently locked into AkuDreams contract forever due to bad code”Submitted Audited Interactive Sigma Proofs and Fiat-Shamir Transformation PoC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSounds like you've been at this since I have (mid-late 90s as well)! I somewhat agree with you on the state of tooling compared to web dev today but I'm not sure it matters or is terribly relevant to the point OP is making. I've been in this space one way or another for five years so prepare for a (somewhat anecdotal) "dump" that you may (hopefully) find useful for the new project that you've been put on. You mentio…
Comment linking /contracts
on “But, aren't you folks web2?”Submitted S&P Global Enters Agreement to Acquire OpenZeppelin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFair point. I probably should have directed him to: https://www.openzeppelin.com/contracts That’s the closest thing to a collection of standard contracts for protocol builders to use that I am aware of. I’m more on the MEV side - I try to profit from protocols rather than build them. So it wasn’t my first thought.
Comment linking /contracts
on “Billion-Dollar Crypto Loan Is Easy to Get, but Gone in a Flash”This is by no means a comprehensive list, but here is a brain dump Get started with: - https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook - https://docs.soliditylang.org/ - https://cryptozombies.io/en/course/ - Join crypto twitter. A lot of projects have twitters that you can use to keep up on with what's happening. - Join discords. A lot of projects have discords that you can use to keep up on with what's happening. - ht…
Comment linking /contracts/
on “Ask HN: Getting started with Web3 ("decentralized web") development”Less than you think. Having some general ideal about the main asset classes and how finance works is useful but don't feel like you need a CFA or anything. Same goes for game theory, helpful especially on the protocol design side of things but don't feel like you need to be an expert to get started. More useful coming from webdev would be good solidity [1] skills. There is a real shortage currently. Most general eng…
Comment linking /contracts/
on “Ask HN: What are some job sectors which are crying out for tech talent in 2021?”Very simple explanation: imagine you want to start a software company with 5 people you met on the internet. You each live in 5 different countries. How do you decide who holds the treasury? How do you decide which jurisdiction to register a partnership agreement in? There's a lot of friction there. And a lot of trust involved. Even if one person takes it upon themselves, the other 4 members have to trust the 1 guy…
Comment linking /contracts
on “Fe: next generation smart contract language for Ethereum”
