Hacken

• Name: Hacken
• URL: https://hacken.io/
• Category: blockchain security / compliance / audit infrastructure / proof-of-reserves and public-security-data platform
• Summary: Hacken is broader than a plain audit shop, but it is still not a top-tier security-engineering anchor. The note matters because the firm bundles audits, compliance work, proof-of-reserves, monitoring, and machine-readable report distribution into one operator surface.
• What it does:
  • Performs smart-contract, blockchain-protocol, dapp, cryptography, and broader offensive-security assessments for digital-asset systems
  • Offers compliance-oriented security work around frameworks such as MiCA, DORA, VARA, ISO 27001, and CCSS rather than limiting itself to code review only
  • Publishes a public documentation portal that explains audit preparation, assessment methodologies, and a no-auth audits API for retrieving report metadata and findings
  • Maintains a large public audit portfolio and positions proof-of-reserves as a recurring product line for exchanges and other asset-holding institutions
  • Extends beyond classic auditing into ongoing monitoring and community/security-marketplace surfaces via Extractor and HackenProof
• Key claims:
  • Hacken’s homepage positions the company as an end-to-end blockchain security and compliance partner for digital assets rather than a single-service audit vendor
  • The official site says Hacken has delivered 1,671 public security assessments, prevented 3,084 critical-to-medium vulnerabilities, and verified more than $430B in assets across proof-of-reserves audits
  • Hacken Docs says the portal covers audit preparation, detailed methodologies, and a public endpoint for retrieving audit findings, statuses, and public reports
  • The GET /audits docs explicitly state that no authentication is required and expose structured fields for scope, report links, issue severities, project links, and audited contracts
  • The public audit-portfolio page reinforces that Hacken is operating a large reusable report corpus, which makes its output feel closer to public security-data infrastructure than to private consulting alone
  • The HackenProof GitHub organization and product references show Hacken also participates in the bug-bounty and community-security layer alongside its audit and compliance business
• Whitepaper: No canonical Hacken whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current source of truth is Hacken’s homepage, docs portal, public audits API, audit-portfolio page, and HackenProof materials; see ../whitepapers/hacken-primary-sources-2026-04-27.md.

Internal linkages

• Best upward reads: immunefi, cantina, and trail-of-bits.

Control surface

• The leverage sits in which assessments Hacken turns into structured public data, how it scopes compliance and monitoring workflows, and how much downstream teams outsource ongoing security process to its audit-plus-platform bundle.

• Keep the note pointed upward toward the stronger security-engineering and marketplace anchors rather than treating Hacken like a category center.

• Sources:

  • https://hacken.io/
  • https://docs.hacken.io/
  • https://docs.hacken.io/rest-apis/get-audits/
  • https://hacken.io/audits/
  • https://github.com/hackenproof

• Last reviewed: 2026-05-31 UTC