{"id":86097,"date":"2023-10-23T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=86097"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:21:15","slug":"blockaid-metamask-security-partner-raises-33-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/blockaid-metamask-security-partner-raises-33-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockaid, MetaMask security partner, raises $33 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blockaid startup closed its Series A funding round of $33 million with participation from Ribbit Capital and Varian.<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/metamask-rolls-out-scam-warning-feature\"> Partner MetaMask<\/a> and OpenSea will continue to scale the technology, with a focus on preventing malicious transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The round also included investments from Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts and Greylock Partners.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced that its platform has exited stealth mode. It is compatible with any blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond MetaMask and OpenSea, Rainbow and Zerion wallet developers have used the toolkit.<\/p>\n<p>In these <span data-descr=\"decentralised applications\" class=\"old_tooltip\">dapps<\/span> there is a corresponding fraud-warning feature. The solution analyses on-chain history for malicious behaviour such as signature forgery and unauthorised withdrawal of assets from wallets.<\/p>\n<p>Blockaid has formed a strategic alliance to provide technologies for securing<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\"> Web3<\/a>-applications.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that over the last three months the platform analysed 450 million transactions, of which 1.2 million were malicious. As a result, it prevented the compromise of $500 million of user funds.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in September, Certik experts estimated phishing losses at $25 million, and losses from all kinds of illicit activity at <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/certik-september-sets-2023-high-for-hack-related-losses\">$329.8 million (a year-to-date record)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Beosin specialists calculated that losses from attacks and scams in the third quarter<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/report-losses-from-hacks-and-scams-in-q3-total-889-million\"> amounted to $889 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blockaid startup closed its Series A funding round of $33 million with participation from Ribbit Capital and Varian. A partner of MetaMask and OpenSea will continue to scale the technology, focusing on preventing malicious transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1111,1133],"class_list":["post-86097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybersecurity","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86099,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86097\/revisions\/86099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}