RedTeam built a 24/7 Swarm of Ethical Hackers
About SN61 RedTeam
This week on Novelty Search, we’re joined by RedTeam (SN61) to explore how decentralized adversarial research can build stronger cybersecurity systems. RedTeam incentivizes miners to discover novel ways of breaking bot detection, device fingerprinting and geolocation systems. Those attacks become inputs into an increasingly autonomous “immune system”: reverse-engineering miner techniques, identifying the underlying exploit, generating new attack variants and developing detection mechanisms to defend against them. Oscar and Javokhir unpack how RedTeam has evolved from manually breaking competing security products into a commercial cybersecurity platform protecting more than 125 million daily active users across its current customers. We get into device fingerprinting, VPN and proxy detection, CAPTCHA, bot swarms, SMS abuse, DDoS attacks, adversarial testing, agentic reverse engineering, miner incentives and the challenge of staying ahead in cybersecurity’s constantly evolving cat-and-mouse game. Featuring RedTeam / SN61.
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SN61 RedTeam at a glance
SN61, RedTeam (α token ر), is one of the independent markets on the Bittensor network, each with its own α token and its own price. Its α currently trades at 0.005919 τ (≈ $1.30), against 10,438 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 34.31% APR (simple) and 40.93% APY (compounded), emissions add 0.000779 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #4,457,976.
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