Security Researcher | Smart Contract Auditor | Protocol Analyst
Building at the intersection of systems design, incentives design, and automated vulnerability detection.
- X: @KrisRenzo
- Blog: krisrenzo.substack.com
Co-Founder & Security Researcher
Audix — Remote | June 2024 – Present
Architecting a smart contract auditing assistant that automates fuzzing, heuristic and invariant discovery, enabling scalable and deep security analysis.
- Smart Contract Fuzzing Workshop with OpenSense – The Efficacy of Fuzzing
- Solo Bug Analysis
High Severity Findings: 32 Medium Severity Findings: 18
| Contest | Date | Platform | Category | CodeSize | Platform-Language | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index Fun Order Book | Oct '25 | Sherlock | Order Book & Prediction Market | 942 | EVM-Solidity | 8th |
| Summer.fi - governance v2 | Sep '25 | Sherlock | Governance & Cross-chain | 1532 | EVM-Solidity | 8th |
| Solayer-bridge | Aug '25 | Cantina | L2 & Cross-chain | 2071 | Solana-Rust | 9th |
| Alchemix-v3 | May '25 | Cantina | Lending | 1,688 | EVM-Solidity | 6th |
| Liquity-bold | Mar '25 | Cantina | Stablecoin | 6,535 | EVM-Solidity | 7th |
| Yieldoor | Feb '25 | Sherlock | Yield aggregator | 1,204 | EVM-Solidity | 12th |
| Zksync Era | Oct '24 | CodeHawks | Infra (Layer 2) | 15,741 | EVM-Solidity, Yul | 10th |
| Liquid Staking | Sep '24 | CodeHawks | Staking | 2,530 | EVM-Solidity | 2nd 🥈 |
| Tadle | Aug '24 | CodeHawks | Derivatives Market | 1,229 | EVM-Solidity | 18th |
| Zaros Part 1 | Jul '24 | CodeHawks | Perpetual | 2,878 | EVM-Solidity | 20th |
| Elfi | May '24 | Sherlock | Perpetual | 5,814 | EVM-Solidity | 7th |
| The Standard | Dec '23 | CodeHawks | Stablecoin | 609 | EVM-Solidity | 32nd |
Cryptocurrency Research Analyst (Contract)
Messari — Remote | Nov 2021 – Mar 2024
Researched smart contract ecosystems and contributed to reports for institutional decision-making.
Machinations Facilitator
Token Engineering Academy — Remote | Dec 2022 – Dec 2023
Led gamified workshops modeling token economies and incentive systems using Machinations.
Blockchain Research Analyst (Intern)
SynFutures — Online | Feb 2022 – Sep 2022
Conducted independent research, created educational content, and contributed to institutional-level reports on decentralized derivatives.
Game Economy Engineer
Underverse — Remote | Nov 2022 – Jan 2023
Designed and optimized the game economy for a Polygon-based RPG using simulations, liveOps data, and modeling tools.
- Token Engineering Presentation – Deep Dive on the Avalanche Consensus Layer
- Forecasting Ethereum Staking Post-Shanghai – The Shanghai Upgrade Unlock
- Avalanche Consensus Machinations Model