Security for crypto exchanges, MiCA & PSAN-ready

• Your hot wallet is the most attacked endpoint in your stack.

  Withdrawal services, signing infrastructure, KMS wrapping, every layer between user request and on-chain transaction is a target. A flaw in any of them is the difference between a bad day and a front-page incident.

• Your API surface grows faster than your reviews.

  REST, WebSocket, FIX, internal admin panels, exchanges accumulate APIs. IDOR, broken auth on internal tooling, and rate-limit gaps are the classic findings, and the ones regulators ask about after the fact.

• Regulators expect documented pentests, not just intent.

  MiCA Article 9 and DORA Articles 24–27 require crypto-asset service providers to run periodic penetration testing and vulnerability assessments. France's PSAN regime adds ANSSI-aligned technical security expectations enforced by the AMF. You need methodology, evidence, attestation letters, and a re-test cadence, not a one-off pentest from years ago.

• An incident in custody is existential.

  Customer funds lost is not a recoverable position. The exchanges that survive incidents have rehearsed the response, comms, freeze procedures, on-chain tracing, law enforcement contacts, before they ever needed it.

Exchanges sit at the intersection of traditional fintech threat models and crypto-native ones. Both apply. The bar is higher than DeFi because user funds are custodied, regulators are watching, and reputation does not survive a single major incident.

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• Crypto Wallet Surveillance & On-Chain Monitoring

  Continuous on-chain monitoring of treasury, admin, and operational wallets. Real-time alerts and an analyst on call.

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• Crypto Incident Response & Recovery

  Web3 incident response and DeFi exploit recovery. On-call when contracts get exploited or wallets get drained.

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• Multi-sig & MPC Wallet Setup

  Treasury wallet architecture for multi-sig and MPC setups. Signer selection, operational runbooks, training.

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• Crypto Exchange Security: From MiCA Readiness to Hot-Wallet Hardening

  What MiCA and modern threat actors expect from a crypto exchange's security posture, custody architecture, API hardening, monitoring, and incident readiness.

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• MiCA Pentest Requirements: A Compliance Guide for CASPs

  What MiCA, DORA Articles 24–27, and the local PSAN regime actually require in terms of penetration testing, and how to satisfy your supervisor without overspending.

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• DORA TLPT: What Threat-Led Penetration Testing Actually Looks Like

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• MPC Wallet

  A wallet using multi-party computation to split a single key across multiple parties so it never exists in one place.

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• Key Management

  The full lifecycle of cryptographic keys: generation, storage, use, rotation, and destruction.

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• KYC / AML

  Know-Your-Customer and Anti-Money-Laundering, the regulatory frameworks under which exchanges and custodians operate.

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• Phishing

  Social engineering attack that tricks a user into approving a malicious transaction or revealing credentials.

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