Zach Obront: Winning Audit Contests & Crushing Bug Bounties

I talk to Zach Obront about his audit process, how he collaborates with other top auditors and his recent wins on Sherlock and Immunefi.

Links:
https://twitter.com/zachobront/status/1633130401043546118
https://github.com/zobront/tla-specs/

0:00 Intro
3:32 Learning Smart Contract Auditing
7:44 Progress on Code4rena
10:30 Collaboration with other Auditors
14:33 Zach's Audit Process
27:53 Motivation
29:36 Sherlock & $700,000 Optimism Audit Contest
34:40 Finding Critical Vulnerabilities
36:15 Spearbit and Private Audits
41:43 Finding a Critical on Optimism
47:51 Finding a Critical on Immunefi
49:21 Zach's day-to-day
53:34 Goals