Consensys Diligence - Candidate for Security Council Elections - March 2025

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Hey Arbitrum community,

My name is Vladislav Yaroshuk, and I’m thrilled to share that I run for the upcoming cohort of the Arbitrum Security Council. You may already know the Consensys Diligence team, a blockchain security group behind significant security audits and tools. I’d like to introduce myself, my team’s work, and explain why I believe I’d be a valuable addition to the Security Council.

At Consensys Diligence, our main goal is straightforward:

  • Secure the foundations of blockchain ecosystems to let projects grow safely.

  • Provide practical and transparent insights to the community.

  • Support developers and security professionals by creating widely-used tools like MythX, Scribble, and the Solidity Visual Auditor.

You can find a full list of our tools here: Blockchain Security Tools | Consensys Diligence

We’ve directly contributed to enhancing security for major protocols and platforms, including Arbitrum’s own core contracts, 1inch, Aave, Balancer and more.

You can see our public reports here:

A bit about myself—I started exploring blockchain back in 2017, driven by an interest in crypto-anarchist philosophy and low-level programming. After spending time as a Solidity developer and exploring MEV strategies, I moved fully into security auditing. Outside of auditing, I actively research and write about previous exploits to educate the community on avoiding vulnerabilities. Lately, I have been actively participating in the security audits of Linea, so I have a strong understanding of the rollup architecture and will be able to help DAO react correctly to any emergency.

If elected, I commit to:

  • Providing timely and reliable security support.

  • Leveraging both personal expertise and Consensys Diligence’s extensive experience to maintain Arbitrum’s security.

  • Remaining transparent and open in communication with the broader Arbitrum community, as well as with other security councils.

  • Always staying alert and responsive to new threats and vulnerabilities.

Thanks a lot for considering me. In the elections for the previous cohort, we finished in 7th place, narrowly missing membership, highlighting the community’s strong interest in having a representative from Consensys Diligence on the council. It would be an honor to become a member in the March cohort and contribute to keeping the Arbitrum ecosystem safe and thriving.

Here you can see our submission with some info about us: Vladislav Yaroshuk | Arbitrum Security Council Candidate

Cheers, Vladislav

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Consensys Diligence is a well-known company in the audit field, with a large in-house team of auditors (which is important) and I consider it an excellent candidate for the position on the Council.

In the last election, the team was just a few votes short of entering the top 6, and I see that they have applied this time as well.

I consider the application from an audit company (even with a specific representative) to be the best practice for the Council:

  • such companies consist of specialists of exactly the profile that is necessary to ensure security
  • interchangeability in the main position. All candidates will have a main job in addition to the Council, but the companies have the opportunity to help each other in emergencies or during some major work
  • as far as I know, the company is distributed across different regions, which makes it possible to respond more quickly (there is always someone who is not sleeping)
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