Nick Bax is a crypto security researcher and blockchain investigator who co-authored work tracing a AnubisDAO theft and founded Five I's. Nick Bax's Twitter Score is 97 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #9,300 (top 5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Nick Bax founded Five I's and works at Security Alliance, contributing to on-chain safety efforts. He is also affiliated with UMP. His investigative work includes collaborating with ZachXBT on tracing a $60 million theft from AnubisDAO in 2021, a case that drew significant attention to rug pulls and liquidity drains in early DeFi.
Nick Bax authored the 2022 paper Tutela: An Open-Source Tool for Assessing User-Privacy on Ethereum and Tornado Cash, a research contribution examining privacy vulnerabilities for users of Tornado Cash and the broader Ethereum ecosystem. His work spans both reactive incident investigation and proactive privacy research, positioning him as a practitioner across multiple dimensions of blockchain security.
Nick Bax has published 6,267 posts on the platform and has 8,010 followers as of July 2026. He has been mentioned by 28 accounts, with 33 total mentions.
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