About the partnership

Currently, when security researchers are searching for bugs in our bug bounty vaults, they have to manually open every contract in scope, which is not only time consuming, but can also make them miss important updates and changes of contracts. With Wherever, hackers can stay-up-to-date with the latest happenings within their preferred spheres, receiving wallet-to-wallet communication when new vaults are made available or contract updates occur. This feature not only keeps users informed, but also enables hackers to get notified to the channels they’re already using like telegram and email, while ensuring no one has access to their sensitive information — including Hats.

To deliver wallet-to-wallet notifications, and ensure a decentralized relay and storage, Wherever relies on the Push Protocol (formerly EPNS). Decentralized notifications also provide the emerging Web3 ecosystem with the benefits of a robust notification ecosystem without the exploitative or centralized drawbacks of Web2 notifications. The combination of both protocols allow users to receive decentralized wallet-to-wallet notifications, control what notifications they receive, and where they receive them, giving them the option to get notified via email and Telegram.

Wherever ensures the wallet holder is in fact the owner of the web2 account by requiring both a wallet signature and a per-channel verification process. Users’ addresses are encrypted both in transit and in rest using AES encryption. Clients cannot fetch a user’s addresses unless the user signs a message proving ownership of the wallet. Users are in full control of their data and can disconnect and remove their addresses at any time using the Wherever widget. Web2 addresses are not shared with Hats, only with the email provider (PostMark) and Telegram, and only for the purpose of sending messages — addresses are NEVER shared with any other parties.

How it works:

To subscribe to Hats notifications, you can follow these simple steps:

1. Open the Hats dApp and click on the bell icon (you can opt-out any time)

2. Click Subscribe

3. Sign the smart contract required for the wallet to wallet interaction

4. Enter your telegram and email to stay notified on the go (optional)

5. Manage your notifications by clicking on the bell icon

How to opt-out

1. Inside of the Wherever widget, head over to Settings by clicking the cog (⚙️) icon.

2. Click the “Account” dropdown menu

3. Press the “Unsubscribe” button

4. Sign the message in your wallet and opt-out

To remove your telegram and email you can ​​follow the Unsubscribe link in any one of the emails received by Wherever and remove your email address from Wherever’s servers indefinitely. To remove your telegram handle, go to Settings on the notification widget in the dApp you used to connect it, and remove it. Alternatively, reach out to us at hello@wherever.im.

Advantages and Use Cases

At Hats Finance, we pride ourselves on operating under the highest standards of Web 3. We do this by prioritizing decentralized messaging and user privacy. Wherever is a private, interoperable, and secure platform that white hats can use to stay informed and participate in our bounty programs without compromising their personal privacy..

Here are some important use cases for the notification feature:

• Vulnerability successfully sent and recorded on-chain — V

• Hats digital tokens received (fungible/non-fungible) -soon

• Withdrawal Safe Period alerts — soon

• Time-bound competition alerts — V

• Governance updates — soon

• Challenges announcements- V

• Vault notifications — V

• Feature announcements -V

We are super excited for this collaboration, and we can’t wait to share our first announcements via Wherever. If you have any questions regarding this feature, or would like to learn more about how it works, please reach out to us via Discord.

Read more about the bug bounty mechanism and check their bug bounty here.

About Gton Capital

GTON Capital is an ecosystem of blockchain products whose combined features will make Web 3.0 more sustainable and value-driven. GTON Network is an Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup blockchain with the stablecoin $GCD as its native currency. Their network is a fork of Optimism, whereas $GCD is a fork of Unit Protocol. By forking and combining these protocols together, GTON Network is building an unprecedentedly powerful rollup-based ecosystem with the primary goal of becoming a haven for GameFi, SocialFi and Real World Assets (RWA)

The Hats Solution

Hats is the first bug bounty of its kind. True to the Web3 ethos, Hats facilitates decentralized vulnerability resolution between white hats and projects in a fully permissionless manner. Because hacks and exploits can affect all project stakeholders, Hats creates a way for all users to get involved in the protection of protocols by providing liquidity to bug bounty vaults, and in return earn $HATS (not live yet). Community-owned bug bounties are transparent due to their permissionless and on-chain resolution capabilities. This adds a scalable aspect to bug bounties, in which rewards grow with the project’s success, token appreciation, and users’ trust

We look forward to supporting Gton Capital in their security efforts, so they can continue to build great products. For more information about future partnerships and announcements, please follow us on Twitter.

Earlier this month, Inverse Finance made an announcement to create an initial bug bounty vault of 20K $DOLA. This bug bounty was created with remaining funds from their audit contest at Code Arena, however, this amount will eventually grow as part of their ongoing commitment to safety.

Starting today, the Inverse Finance bug bounty vault will be available in our dApp. This bounty will be used to incentivize ethical hackers who disclose vulnerabilities in their smart contracts and applications. Anyone in possession of $DOL can join the effort and become a protector of the protocol by providing liquidity to their bug bounty. Users who provide liquidity to any bug bounty in Hats can participate in liquidity mining rewards and receive $HATS once TGE begins (token is not live yet).

For more information about the Inverse bug bounty, including the smart contracts in scope and prize distribution, you can read the bug bounty description here.

About Inverse Finance

Inverse DAO governs and develops a suite of permissionless and decentralized financial tools using blockchain and smart contract technology. Inverse serves as a decentralized global central bank, using an innovative lending market, revenue sharing, high yields with sustainable APYs, and low-cost stable coin borrowing.

Their vision is to establish a DeFi ecosystem that gives users, of all levels, inclusive access to meaningful opportunities in a variety of innovative DAO-owned protocols, all governed by an empowered INV community.

The Hats Solution

Hats is the first bug bounty of its kind. True to the Web3 ethos, Hats facilitates decentralized vulnerability resolution between white hats and projects in a fully permissionless manner. Because hacks and exploits can affect all project stakeholders, Hats creates a way for all users to get involved in the protection of protocols by providing liquidity to bug bounty vaults, and in return earn $HATS (not live yet). Community-owned bug bounties are transparent due to their permissionless and on-chain resolution capabilities. This adds a scalable aspect to bug bounties, in which rewards grow with the project’s success, token appreciation, and users’ trust

We look forward to supporting Inverse in their security efforts, so they can continue to build great products. For more information about future partnerships and announcements, please follow us on Twitter.

Key Takeaways:

• Hats are expanding the community, and we started with articulating a few guiding principles we can start with: Open Collaboration, Open-Source Knowledge, and Consistent Evolution.

• The Community expansion starts with the Hatters ambassador program, where we invite hackers, developers, and crypto and privacy enthusiasts to become a part of crypto security’s future.

• There are several teams in the Hatters program— Community, NFT and UX, Growth, and DAO2DAO, each with its own goals and compensation allocations.

The Hats community

Over the past few weeks, the hats community has began to take form, as people joined, contributed, and helped the core team in launching the first version of the Hats protocol in the quest to create new security principles for Web3. We want to begin talking about a few core values of the Hats community, and while these values are going to be decided and finalized by the community DAO, we want to start with a few we think are proper:

• Open Collaboration — Any project, protocol, and community are welcome to collaborate with hats. Hats community members are invited to explore how they can assist and add value to the Hats project and other projects in the process.

• Open Source Knowledge — Education, aligned partnership, and information sharing are main driving forces in building the Hats ecosystem. We believe that sharing information is critical if we want to secure the Ethereum ecosystem.

• Consistent Evolution — Research and focus on innovation requires a multitude of opinions and ideas if we want to challenge the solutions of the legacy world. We welcome all opinions, ideas, and perspectives and we want to be challenged if the community thinks we can do better.

Who are the Hatters?

Hatters are the ambassadors of Hats.finance. Hatters are unique because they are highly skilled; They possess the wisdom of owls, are highly adaptable like chameleons, problem-solvers like bears, and are amazing messengers like Crows.

Hatters can write articles, introduce new projects, give innovative solutions, and onboard new members. Most importantly, Hatters have one value in common: they believe in revolutionizing the future crypto security. Whether you are a hacker, a developer, a privacy fanatic, or crypto enthusiast, as long as you believe in our mission of making the crypto space more secure, transparent and autonomous, you have a place in our community.

We believe that ambassadors are an essential part of any DeFi community, and we have seen firsthand how the Hatters community can embrace new members, even on the darkest nights. Hatters work as a tribe, because they believe the mission is bigger than themselves, simultaneously they work individually to expand their knowledge and grow the community. Hatters do not wait for opportunities, they create them. They come from all paths of life, yet their enthusiasm in designing the future of cybersecurity on Ethereum unites them.

Hats.finance is a decentralized cybersecurity network, a DAO from day one. If you would like to take this opportunity and join the tribe of Hats — Read here:

Community team:

• You have a great sense of hospitality, you can invite new members and encourage current members to be active participants.

• You are a great communicator and you understand how to engage audiences via Twitter, Reddit, and relevant social media.

• You can speak and write in a second language or are open to creating a non-English channel- Spanish, Korean, Indonesian, Russian, etc.

Growth team:

• You enjoy educating others and can create unique and engaging content.

• You are good in-camera or have great video editing skills.

• You understand Reddit and can reach out to hackers and developers.

NFT <> UI/UX team:

• Good at building meaningful relationships with artists, influencers, and developers in the NFT space.

• Engage and welcome the NFT community in the Hats group chats and meetups.

• You have a deep technical knowledge of NFTs, and understand what makes NFT projects succeed.

• Develop NFT programs that help artists and creatives showcase their work through Hats.

Dao2Dao team:

• You are passionate about crypto security, privacy, and hacking and can develop marketing plans to onboard new members and partnerships.

• Develop and maintain partnership relationships.

• Onboard new projects for the Hats’ bounty programs.

• Suggest and research user experience in Hats and provide feedback to improve our platform.

• Organize engaging online and offline events for the Hats community.

Compensation

Each Hatter team has a reward ceiling of $1250 USDC every month. Keep in mind that rewards can change due to governance decisions and can end at any time.

Apply here.

How it works

• All Hatters will be recognized in our Discord channel.

• You will gain access to the admin closed groups and exclusive meetings with the Hats development team.

• As a member of the Hatter community, you will receive constant support and communication with the Hats team.

• Exceptional leadership will be rewarded with a core admin role within each team.

• You will submit a monthly summary of your contribution to the community, explaining the hours worked, as well as results from your efforts. Your summary can be submitted via written, video, or screenshots of your work.

Voting:

• Each Hatter can vote on other contributions.

• Your work will be evaluated on a range of 1–10 by other contributors.

• Your compensation will be distributed according to your evaluated score, Ex: 3 = 30% dedicated budget.

• Once approved by the admin, payment will be released to your designated wallet.

• The same process will occur each month.

Compensation:

• We are starting with a monthly reward ceiling of $1250 USDC. This reward structure can change with governance decisions or end at any time.

• Compensation will be given according to contribution to the team and will be announced in Hatters groups for transparency.

• Compensation will be in USDC.

• Compensation will be sent 5 days after the voting.

So, which Hat are you? Join us.

Apply here.

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