Transaction Screening & Threat Oracles:
A New Approach to Exploit Prevention

Introducing the FORT Staking Vault

The FORT Vault, an open-source smart contract developed by Nethermind and funded by the Forta Foundation, is now integrated with a new UI in the Forta App to simplify the staking process within the Forta protocol.

Transaction Screening & Threat Oracles: A New Approach to Exploit Prevention

This blog dives into transaction screening as a promising approach to prevent smart contract exploits, addresses some common criticisms, and providing a first look at a concept the Forta Foundation team is calling “Threat Oracles”, an on-chain blocklist DeFi protocols can leverage to screen for and block malicious activity. 

Why Forta is Proposing RIP-7614

RIP-7614 proposes a new precompile for L2s giving smart contracts more visibility into addresses in the transaction call stack. This additional visibility will enable DeFi protocols to perform robust transaction screening, and most importantly… block exploits. 

Sybil Defender: Tackling Identity Challenges via Forta’s Latest Premium API Feed

Sybil attacks represent a persistent and all too often overlooked threat in the crypto ecosystem. To combat this threat, Frwd Labs has recently launched Sybl Defender, the latest Forta Premium API Feed. 

Forta releases Attack Detector 2.0 with BlockSec and Nethermind

After six months of amazing work from the Forta Foundation and members of the Forta community, the Attack Detector 2.0 is officially launching. Attack Detector 2.0 adds two new core development teams, improved performance, and integrations with complimentary security tools.