We’re happy to announce the founding of the Blockchain Security Standards Council (BSSC). This nonprofit group will search to ascertain uniform safety requirements within the crypto trade.
The BSSC’s members will deal with rising safety threats by working towards a consensus of agreed upon requirements. Such threats embody fraud, nation-state focused campaigns and protocol and contract exploitation, all of which injury belief in cryptoasset expertise.
“Establishing voluntary safety requirements is a essential element of crypto’s maturation,” mentioned Kraken Chief Safety Officer Nick Percoco. “Trade gamers collaborating to construct a stronger general ecosystem can solely assist to drive confidence within the general asset class. We’re proud to play our half in designing these requirements that the trade will adhere to.”
The BSSC founding crew consists of Kraken, Anchorage Digital, Bastion, Coinbase, Figment, Fireblocks, Halborn, OpenZeppelin, Ribbit Capital and Sentinel World. All companies within the BSSCl are dedicated to creating trade safety benchmarks and a strong audit course of by the tip of 2024.
The BSSC additionally goals to have interaction with regulators and policymakers – educating because the blockchain ecosystem grows – to make sure the trade develops unified requirements that shield shoppers whereas nurturing innovation within the asset class.
Co-founding the BSSC is one more instance of Kraken’s devoted safety technique. It follows our co-founding the trade’s first ever Crypto Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC). This nonprofit group, which additionally contains members from throughout the crypto ecosystem, will successfully disseminate information and greatest practices with the general purpose of lowering cybersecurity exploits.
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