Skylock is a DeFi protocol security project that detects and intercepts malicious on-chain transactions, moving vulnerable funds to safe-harbor wallets and returning them to their owners. Skylock's Twitter Score is 7.9 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #116,157 among 498,071 tracked accounts.
Skylock was co-founded by Robert MacWha, who serves as CEO, and Dickson Wu. The project operates as Skylock Security Inc., a blockchain and cybersecurity company founded in 2022. Its backers include Nascent, Delphi Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, Robot Ventures, and DoraHacks.
Skylock monitors blockchains for malicious transactions, front-runs exploits, and secures at-risk funds before they can be stolen. The project claims to detect 80% of malicious transactions preemptively and to front-run up to 40% of technical-vulnerability exploits. It operates on a success-based bounty model, charging only after a successful fund recovery. Skylock reports safeguarding over $1 billion in funds, with protocols including DODO, Native, Pendle, and SmarDex among its users and endorsers.
Skylock supports a broad range of chains, including Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum, Polygon, Base, Avalanche, and Optimism. Its beta deployed machine-learning-powered tooling to monitor and intercept smart-contract attacks in real time. Skylock is also the author of the SEAL Whitehat Safe Harbor framework, which enables protocols to pre-authorize whitehats to rescue funds during an active exploit. The account has published 30 posts and has been mentioned by 3 accounts, totaling 5 mentions.
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The accounts that follow Skylock include 28 founders, 8 angel investors, 6 influencers and 4 VCs, among them Tarun Chitra, Dan Elitzer, Hudson Jameson, dcbuilder.eth, CryptoCondom and Grug.