Proposal: Expanding Security & Trust with ChainPatrol (Renewal)
Objective
ChainPatrol is a Real-Time Security Platform that aims to detect, block and manage takedowns of active malicious threats targeting Venus Protocol, keeping the community and organization safe from bad actors across all domains and social platforms.
Background
Following our approved proposal in July of 2024 —“Enhancing Security and Trust with ChainPatrol” messari.io+3community.venus.io+3twitter.com+3— we onboarded Venus to detect, block and takedown online threats targeting Venus’s brand, domains, and community channels and have been its main Brand Protection Provider over the past 12 months.
Achievements to Date
ChainPatrol completed initial onboarding with Venus, gathering all official Venus domains, staff profiles, and brand assets and training our automated systems on Venus’ online presence (utilizing tools such as image recognition, and semantic similarity). We also collected signed Legal Documents (POA and LOA) which allowed us to perform Takedowns on Venus’ behalf.
From there, through a combination of our automated system and ongoing support from our Reporting Staff, ChainPatrol ran daily detection, blocking malicious assets at the Wallet Extension and Domain Level, proving a warning sign within minutes of detection.
This initial response through our Wallet Security Network (parnerships with 20+ wallets, including MetaMask, Coinbase and Phantom) ensures that users interacting with the Venus Brand have immediate protection from malicious assets looking to victimize them in a variety of different methods (Wallet Drainer code, fake prompts for private data, etc.). It is the fastest response time in Crypto, and much quicker than traditional Brand Protection methods that occur solely at the domain level.
Our team then initiated Takedowns to the respective Domain Provider or Social Medium, leveraging the Legal Docs that we had signed, and combining this with the supporting evidence gathered by our system.
Below is a summary of our efforts over the past year for the Venus Community and Brand:
Continuous Threat Landscape
The threat landscape in Web3 has rapidly evolved. Scammers are now using AI-generated content, deepfakes, and automated phishing kits to impersonate trusted brands across social platforms, wallets, and dApps at scale. At the same time, rising regulatory pressure is pushing protocols to take a more aggressive stance on user protection and fraud prevention. This shift has made basic monitoring insufficient—what used to be a part-time need now requires full-time vigilance, faster response times, and deeper threat intelligence. Staying ahead of these threats demands a more robust, hands-on approach than ever before.
Investment & Pricing
Over the course of the past year, ChainPatrol has kept pricing at a constant of US $250/mo, despite a rapidly increasing and ongoing need for Brand Protection for the Venus brand, allowing for continuity and consistency of pricing.
The threat landscape we’ve monitored over the past year reflects a consistent medium-to-higher level of risk, requiring sustained and proactive protection efforts. Based on this assessment, we propose continuing the comprehensive ChainPatrol service at a new rate of US $1,500/mo or US $18,000/year—a level that more accurately reflects the scale of threats we’re addressing and is in line with comparable brand protection programs across the industry. Our co-founders have also committed to keeping price fixed at this new price for 2 years upon approval, to continue our theme of consistency in pricing.
This increase reflects the ongoing and persistent level of active threats and Venus’s expanding footprint—requiring more intensive monitoring, faster takedown coordination, and deeper threat intelligence. The pricing adjustment ensures we can sustain and scale our efforts to match the evolving threat landscape.
Scope of Services for Renewal
Our services include:
- Maintaining the Security Platform for domain, social, marketplace, and wallet app monitoring
- Running 24/7 triage on detected threats via Discord, Telegram, Slack channels
- Sharing ongoing real-time metrics and regular Threat Snapshot reports
- Execute domain, social, and app-store takedowns
- Manage bots and reporting workflows; coordinate takedowns with relevant platform teams
- Continue regular syncs to onboard new domains, update brand assets, and ensure alignment
Timeline & Renewal Terms
- Start Date: August 1, 2025
- Term: 12 months at USD $1.5k/mo; USD $18,000/year
- Payment Method: via USDC
Next Steps
- Approve renewal - our team will continue to protect the Venus Brand as this proposal is under review
- Work with Venus to gather any new brand assets, domains, or staff channels for onboarding
- Ongoing communicationg with Venus teams to stay aligned with the Roadmap and co-ordinate focused reporting efforts during major events/announcements
