Celebrating the myriads of accomplishments earned by the crypto ecosystem, Immunefi, Electric Capital, Bitscale Capital and MA Family together hosted The Bug House — a party for bringing together the global Web3 community.
In a panel hosted by Cointelegraph, editor-in-chief Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr sat with Mitchell Amador, founder and CEO at Immunefi, and Brendan Eich, founder and CEO of Brave browser, to discuss the evolution of Web3 and its future trajectory.
“There’s a lot of Web2 in Web3. That’s a problem right now,” began Eich when asked about the ongoing Web2 to Web3 transition. From using trusted servers to sub-custody wallets, Amador believed that such Web2 sites could be full of adversaries. He also pointed out the recent EIP-5593 proposal, which aims to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.
In Web2, there is a common practice of implementing security features post-launch through patches and antiviruses, which can be inherited by Web3 apps using such services. In addition, security concerns in Web3 stem from the centralization through decentralized application (DApp) sites.
Speaking about the security concerns in Web3, Amador stated that hackers in Web3 are very different from Web2 hackers. According to him, there are two types of hackers. In Web3, hackers are found to be young, typically under the age of 35 and most under…
