Fellowship Programs
Our fellowships are a public good aiming to onboard top security talent to the Ethereum ecosystem.
Many of our alumni fellows from 8 previous fellowships now occupying prominent positions in top projects and protocols, topping bounty and contest leaderboards, or leading a successful solo auditing careers.
Electisec fellowships are not introductory programs to software auditing. They are trial-by-fire programs where you will audit pre-production or in-production codebases, and the stakes are very high.
General structure and Guidelines
- You will be auditing alongside our residents, guest auditors, and mentors.
- You will be expected to participate, add value to the discussions, and submit reports.
- You will be expected to be fluent at setting up test environments, and running common tools.
- You are not required to have experience in auditing in the Web3 space, but you must be proficient in software engineering generally and have published proof of technical work. Please note that as the Electisec fellowship continues getting more popular, the competition to join our programs is increasing with each iteration.
- Our fellowships are a public good and there is no fee to participate. However accepted fellows must stake a small amount of ETH which is returned to them upon successful completion of the fellowship.
Audits conducted within our fellowship programs get a boost from extra eyes of our amazing fellows, uncovering hundreds of bugs in 8 fellowships since 2021
Choose your hard
Smart Contract Fellowship
A typical week in the fellowship program
- The auditing sprint starts on Monday with an overview session delivered by one of our resident auditors, a guest auditor, or the codebase author.
- During the week, async discussion take place between fellows, mentors, guest auditors, residents, and codebase devs.
- Fellows work in groups during the week. Groups may meet during the week over calls.
- At the end of the week (or second week for larger codebases), fellows present their findings and receive feedback from our residents, mentors, and codebase authors.
- The auditing sprint ends with a retreat session where we invite a prominent guest for a lecture or AMA with the fellows.
If you think our program is too advanced for you now, fear not, you can still join after going through an introductory program such as Secureum. If you prefer to fly solo, you can bootstrap yourself & hunt for bounties on Immunefi. Then, come back & apply, we would love to boost your progress to an advanced level.