This week, I sat down with Yev Broshevan, co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Hacken, a leading blockchain security firm focused on making Web3 a safer, more trustworthy place for everyone. Even better? Yev’s birthday is the same day this episode drops - happy birthday, Yev!
Yev’s story goes way back to her early days as a cybersecurity engineer in Ukraine, where weak institutions and a hacker’s curiosity led her deep into the world of Bitcoin back in 2014. Since then, she and her Hacken co-founders have been building a mission-driven business around ethical hacking—using a mindset of creativity and values to secure everything from smart contracts to crypto exchanges.
In this episode, we get into:
Why the hacker mindset isn’t just about code, it’s a way of living—and solving problems
How HackenProof, their bug bounty platform, now has over 45,000 ethical hackers keeping Web3 projects secure
Why smart contract audits are just one layer—operational security and key management matter just as much
How AI is reshaping both sides of the security equation: as a powerful ally and a new threat vector
Why Yev’s now channeling her hacker brain into biohacking—optimizing health and performance like it’s just another system to tune
We also talk about Hacken’s move into the US, how the security landscape has evolved since the early days of crypto, and what the industry still needs to get right to earn back trust.
From Web2 to Web3 to Human 2.0, this one’s got layers.
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