A rare ask from BlockThreat (Giveth QF round ends May 12)

Dear Reader,

After 7 years and 355 weekly editions, BlockThreat has become something I never planned but am immensely proud of: a starting point for people entering blockchain security. Students working through their first audits. Solo researchers getting their first taste of the weekly barrage of hacks, scams, and phishing attacks. Folks without corporate backing and small DeFi projects trying to defend themselves on non-existent security budgets.

These are exactly the folks who most need the signal BlockThreat provides and also the people for whom a $15/month subscription is a real barrier. That's what this QF round is for.

The round closes May 12, 2026, just under three weeks from today.

Even a small donation matters

Quadratic Funding isn't the usual "donate what you can" model. The matching formula rewards the number of unique contributors, not the total dollars raised. Ten people giving $10 each pulls significantly more from the 500 ETH matching pool than one person giving $100.

If you've been reading BlockThreat for free through the archives, BlockThreat Today, The State of Blockchain Security reports, and other public resources, then a $5 or $10 donation from you matters more here than almost anywhere else.

How to donate

• Visit qf.giveth.io/project/blockthreat
• Press the Add To Cart button
• Check out when ready on Ethereum, Optimism, Gnosis, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum, or Celo with any of the supported tokens.

One more thing worth your attention: the Security Alliance initiatives are also in this round. SEAL 911 especially deserves as much support as possible.

If you do donate, I'll publish how many sponsorships got funded after the round closes and the matching is distributed. You'll see exactly where it went.

Thank you for reading, for subscribing, and for making this the kind of project where asking the community to help sponsor newcomers feels natural.

-Peter