DeFi Engineer β’ Protocol Security Researcher β’ Co-Founder @ TurtleShell β’ Smart Contract Dev @ Hifi Finance
Iβm a Web3-native Full-Stack & Smart Contract Developer with 10 years coding experience and 3+ years specializing in DeFi protocols.
My areas of interest:
- DeFi Security & Exploit Protection (Key contributor to ERC-7265 βCircuit Breakerβ standard)
- Production DeFi Architecture (managed $20M+ TVL at HiFi Finance)
- CDP & RWA Lending (designed liquidation mechanics, accounting safety, incentive models)
- Smart Contract Testing & Math Safety (stateless fuzzing, testing architecture, invariant testing)
Projects I have been involved with:
- Hifi Finance (v3): Stablecoin-centered RWA lending protocol
- TurtleShell / ERC7265: On-chain exploit protection / firewalls for DeFi protocols
- PRBMath: Fixed point Solidity math library
| Project | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| HiFi-V3 | CDP-based RWA lending protocol: liquidation mechanics, safety & incentives. | π Notion |
| TurtleShell-Core | On-chain βCircuit Breakerβ firewalls for DeFi protocols (ERC-7265). | π GitHub |
| Nomad-Bridge-Hack-Prevention | Circuit Breaker integration preventing a $200 million DeFi exploit. | π GitHub |
| sol-dex | Decentralized exchange with liquidity pools (AMM's), governance tokens, upgradeable contracts & on-chain voting. | π GitHub |
| Over-The-Ether | Tap-to-Pay mobile crypto payments using ultrasound. | π Hackathon Submission |
- π₯ ETH Warsaw 2023 Finalist Circuit Breaker UI
- ποΈ GoPlus Security Summit Speaker (Istanbul, 2023)
- ποΈ "The Bytecode" Podcast Guest on Circuit Breakers and ERC7265 Watch here
- π Major Contributor to ERC-7265 DeFi βCircuit Breakerβ standard
- π Best Consumer Application built on Morph at ETHGlobal Bangkok 2024 (OverTheEther)
- π Best NFT Project on Mantle at ETH Prague 2023 (TurtleShell)
- π Most innovative dApp using Safe at ETHGlobal NYC 2023 (Safe Invaders)
- π Most Use of Neon EVM at ETHGlobal Paris 2023 (Decentralized Circuit Breaker)
- π Best ReFi Product on Polygon at ETH SF 2022 (Aspan)
- βοΈ philipp.keinberger@gmail.com
- π philipp.keineberger.com
- π¦ @phil10013
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