About Guardrail

An overview of our team, history, and our vision behind building Guardrail.

Mission

We believe that security is fundamental to blockchain's long-term success. As security experts and builders, we see the need for better security solutions while others focus on improving blockchain's speed, cost-efficiency, and utility. We're enlisting to the cause of better security.

Every metric in Web3 security shows the scale of the problem and concerning trend. Over $1B is spent on security audits, and over $2B is lost to hacks, with every hack affecting a security-audited codebase.

Currently, our industry's best approaches involve compliance technology, custom in-house monitoring solutions, and many point vendors promising specific parts of the problem solved. Every team we spoke to was either A) overwhelmed with the challenges and lacking the resources to solve them effectively or B) buying several vendors' products and still unsatisfied.

We’re tackling this today with a more advanced platform designed to solve the resource, time and risk mitigation resources more effectively. And this is just the beginning—our roadmap includes several innovative ideas that will drive the entire industry forward.

Background

We've been building security for blockchain for the past two years. Our products have been trusted by teams like Badger, Pendle, Bluefin, and Li.Fi, and we've replaced and upgraded internal security setups built with tools like Tenderly or other competing monitoring solutions.

As we've improved, so have attacker techniques and the underlying infrastructure. We initially built a data-first, multi-dimensional product. After rigorous testing and customer feedback, we are excited to launch the next generation of our security monitoring solution.

Team & Product

In our past lives, our team of experts has handled over 200 critical security incidents, built AI prediction & modeling algorithms at Fortune 500 companies, led a 0 to 1 product engineering team within blockchain, and addressed cyber campaigns against nation-state actors.

Our backers include Web3's best minds, with investments from Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Volt Capital, Canonical Crypto, Alliance DAO, Linda Xie, and several high-value angels.

We’re based in San Francisco, focused on delivering a product-first, customer-centric solution. Shipping with urgency and building long-lasting relationships is at the core of our DNA.