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- Product
Phylax stops over 4,000 drain attempts and $1.5M in losses on the Credible Layer
Phylax reports the Credible Layer has blocked over 4,000 distinct drain attempts and $1.5M in cumulative drain volume across EVM chains compatible with the circuit breaker.
- BlogResearch
The Freeze Button Is Not Free
Phylax argues that stablecoin governance needs a rule-of-law mindset rather than crisis management, examining the cost of centralized freeze authorities in DeFi infrastructure.
- Crypto
The Bridge less travelled
Long-form essay by Odysseus, founder of Phylax Systems, on cross-chain bridge design choices and the paths the industry hasnt taken.
- BlogResearch
The Bridge less travelled
Odysseas Lamtzidis explores alternative architectures for cross-chain bridge security beyond conventional designs.
- X Post
Phylax blocks its first live exploit attempt on Linea
Odysseus says an external integration misconfiguration led some wallets to approve a 0x Settler address directly; working with 0x, Phylax deployed a targeted mitigation and stopped the first drain attempt on Linea.
- BlogProduct
Mitigation Report: Phylax Halts Exploitation of Misconfigured External Approvals to 0x on Linea
Phylax publishes a mitigation report detailing how the Credible Layer stopped exploitation of misconfigured 0x Settler approvals on Linea before user funds were drained.
- Product
Denaria perps DEX case study: assertions for trading correctness on Linea
Phylax publishes a case study with Denaria Finance on Linea showing how assertions uphold accounting correctness across all major trading functions on its perps DEX.
- BlogResearch
Instant Settlement, Instant Loss
Odysseas Lamtzidis examines the security tradeoffs of instant settlement systems and where they create new attack surfaces.
- BlogProduct
Lagoon: Securing Private Credit Vaults on Linea
Phylax publishes a case study with Lagoon Finance covering five assertions deployed to protect tokenized private credit vaults across sync and async settlement modes on Linea.
- BlogInfrastructure
Phylax Partners with Linea to Bring Network-Native Security to ETH Capital
Phylax announces a partnership with Linea to embed network-native security and the Credible Layer at the L2 level for ETH capital deployments.
- BlogResearch
Network-Native Security
Phylax outlines the case for embedding security as a network-native primitive rather than an application-layer add-on.
- BlogResearch
DATs Are Sidelined
Phylax team argues why Decentralized Autonomous Treasuries are being sidelined in the current crypto security and governance landscape.
- BlogResearch
Call Stack Forking
Phylax team publishes a technical post on call stack forking as a tool for assertion-based security analysis.
- BlogResearch
Presidential Working Group on Digital Assets: Manifesto
Phylax publishes a policy manifesto responding to the Presidential Working Group on Digital Assets.
- BlogResearch
OP FMA Assertions Exploration
Phylax explores applying assertions to OP Stack failure mode analysis to harden the OP rollup security model.
- BlogResearch
Neutrality: A new way of looking at the Credible Layer
Phylax reframes the Credible Layer as a neutrality primitive for protocols seeking deterministic enforcement of invariants.
- BlogResearch
Four Impossible Assertions in On-Chain EVM Execution Made Possible With Phylax's Credible Layer
Phylax details four classes of assertions that are impossible in vanilla EVM execution but enabled by the Credible Layer's runtime enforcement primitives.
- BlogProduct
The Power of Phylax Cheatcodes
Phylax explains the cheatcodes system that lets developers express complex security invariants in their assertion contracts.
- BlogResearch
Why I chose to build deterministic security tech
Odysseas Lamtzidis explains why Phylax was built around deterministic enforcement rather than probabilistic detection of crypto exploits.
- BlogResearch
2025: The Year of Security
Odysseas Lamtzidis frames 2025 as the year crypto must prioritize security primitives over yield primitives.
- BlogResearch
ETH Denver and how Phylax could have stopped the Bybit Hack
Phylax walks through how Credible Layer assertions could have prevented the Bybit hack, presented at ETH Denver.
- BlogResearch
The State of Crypto Security in 2024
Phylax publishes its 2024 year-end review of the crypto security landscape, exploits, and protocol responses.
- BlogResearch
Understanding Assertions: A New Primitive for Blockchain Security
Phylax introduces assertions as a new primitive for runtime blockchain security, enabling protocols to encode and enforce arbitrary invariants.
- BlogResearch
The Phylax Credible Layer Whitepaper
Phylax publishes the Credible Layer whitepaper describing the architecture for assertion-based runtime enforcement of protocol invariants on EVM chains.
- BlogFunding
Phylax Systems Raises $4.5M Pre-Seed to Back Credible Security
Phylax Systems closes a $4.5M pre-seed round to build the Credible Layer for runtime security enforcement on EVM chains.
- BlogGeneral
Actualizing Phylax Systems
Odysseas Lamtzidis introduces Phylax Systems and the founding vision for credible, deterministic crypto security.