In 2022, the Web3 ecosystem lost over $3.8 billion to smart contract exploits. The same year, AI systems began writing code at scale. The intersection of those two facts — exploitable code, AI-generated at volume — became the founding problem that LISA was built to solve.

We started with a simple observation: large language models are uniquely capable of reasoning about code the way humans do — understanding intent, context, and consequence — but they can process thousands of contracts simultaneously. That's the superpower that traditional static analyzers don't have.

Today, LISA has audited over 12,000 smart contracts, protected $2.4 billion in TVL, and built a community of 8,500 researchers who treat Web3 security as a career, not a side hustle. We're not just building an audit tool — we're building the security infrastructure layer for the AI age.

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Core beliefs

What we stand for

Security as infrastructure

Security isn't a checkbox at the end of a project — it's the foundation everything else is built on. We treat it as critical infrastructure, not a service.

AI and humans, together

The best security outcomes come from AI speed combined with human judgment. We build systems that amplify both — not replace one with the other.

Community ownership

The researchers who secure the ecosystem should own a stake in it. $LISA governance ensures that the people doing the work shape the platform's direction.

Leadership

The team behind LISA

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Kevin Liu

Co-founder & CEO

Former security researcher at Trail of Bits. Found critical vulnerabilities in Compound, Aave, and dYdX before building LISA to automate what he did manually at scale.

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Dr. Maya Reyes

Co-founder & CTO

AI/ML researcher with a PhD in program analysis from Carnegie Mellon. Previously led the code understanding research team at a major AI lab. Designed LISA's core LLM audit engine.

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Jake Chen

Co-founder & Head of Community

code4rena alumnus and top-ranked competitive auditor with 200+ confirmed findings across DeFi protocols. Designed the community validation and $LISA reward system from the ground up.

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Nina Park

Head of Research
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Amin Raza

Lead Engineer
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Sophie B.

Head of Partnerships
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Tom Kwan

Protocol Lead
Timeline

Road to Secure AGI

2022

The founding problem

Kevin Liu's $6M Compound exploit discovery during a manual audit — and the realization it should have taken 4 seconds, not 4 weeks — becomes the seed of LISA.

Q1 2023

LISA alpha launches

First private alpha with 20 protocols. LLM audit engine detects 91% of known vulnerabilities in the test suite. Seed round of $4M closed.

Q3 2023

$LISA token & community launch

Public launch with $LISA token, bug bounty registry, and first 500 community researchers. code4rena partnership announced.

Q2 2024

Series A — $18M

Series A closed to expand LLM research, launch CI/CD integrations, and build the LISAx402 API layer. Community grows to 3,000 researchers.

2025

$2B TVL protected milestone

Binance Alpha listing. Multi-chain expansion to Optimism, Base, Arbitrum. Community reaches 6,000 researchers. 10,000 audits completed.

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Today — 8,500 researchers, $2.4B TVL

The largest AI-powered smart contract security community in Web3. LISA now audits code written by AI coding agents — the Road to Secure AGI continues.

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