About Me
Giuseppe Cocomazzi is a technical security researcher who collaborates with KeyForDEX on a remote basis. As a permanent technical author, he regularly prepares in-depth analytical material for the platform.
With a strong engineering foundation — a summa cum laude degree from the renowned Politecnico di Bari — Giuseppe professionally specializes in complex cryptography and infrastructure vulnerabilities. Before joining the blockchain industry, he conducted successful security research on enterprise products (Fortinet Product Security), and his name appears in official vulnerability databases (including CVE-2023-25000 in HashiCorp Vault) and full-disclosure archives (Seclists).
Giuseppe currently holds the position of Senior Researcher at Certora, one of the world's leading smart-contract formal verification auditors.
Role at KeyForDEX: Engineering research
Giuseppe's articles are anything but superficial copywriting. He writes in the format of rigorous "research notes." At KeyForDEX, Giuseppe is responsible for the most complex topics: hidden trust assumptions in cross-chain bridges (commit-reveal mechanisms), validator architecture vulnerabilities (using Solana as an example), and the finer points of cryptography in production blockchains (for instance, the risks involved in BLS signature aggregation).
Areas of Expertise
Key Publications and Research
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Anatomy of Cross-Chain Bridge Hacks: Commit-Reveal Risks
KeyForDEX / Infrastructure Analytics
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Keep It Like a Secret (Certora Blog) ↗
External publication / Certora
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Subtleties of BLS Signatures ↗
External publication / Certora
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Operating a Solana Validator: Security via Simplicity ↗
External publication / Infrastructure
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Ghost in the Block: ETH Consensus Vulnerability ↗
External research / Asymmetric Research