Adversarial Reconstruction
We model the protocol from the attacker's perspective. What is the cheapest way to violate safety? What is the fastest way to stop liveness? What assumptions are hidden in the code but not in the paper?
We reconstruct your protocol, identify its security assumptions, and attempt to break them under adversarial conditions. Consensus manipulation, eclipse, partition, and resource exhaustion are in scope.
We model the protocol from the attacker's perspective. What is the cheapest way to violate safety? What is the fastest way to stop liveness? What assumptions are hidden in the code but not in the paper?
Single attacks rarely succeed in production. We chain attacks: eclipse the leader, then partition the validators, then exploit predictable randomness. Combined campaigns reveal protocol weaknesses that isolated tests miss.
Every successful attack is measured by its real impact: blocks delayed, transactions censored, forks produced, funds at risk, or validators slashed. We avoid theoretical severity without practical evidence.
The engagement produces a repeatable playbook: attack preconditions, reproduction steps, observed behaviour, root cause, and remediation. This becomes regression tests for the protocol team.