# Hacken > Turning frontier technology into resilient, regulator-ready financial infrastructure. Hacken is a blockchain security services provider. It helps financial institutions and crypto exchanges find vulnerabilities and meet compliance requirements through audits, penetration testing, and regulatory guidance. Hacken is a blockchain security and compliance firm. It audits smart contracts and protocols, runs penetration tests, and verifies proof of reserves for organizations that hold or move digital assets. Its clients are financial institutions and the exchanges, custodians, and tokenization platforms they rely on. Institutions adopting blockchain and tokenization take on new technical risk and new regulatory obligations at the same time. Hacken's security engineers review code, infrastructure, and operations for vulnerabilities, and map the findings to frameworks such as MiCA, DORA, and the US GENIUS Act. Security remediation and regulatory readiness are handled in the same engagement rather than by separate providers. Engagements range from a single pre-launch audit to continuous monitoring of deployed systems. Used by exchanges, custodians, banks, asset managers, and tokenization platforms seeking to strengthen their security and compliance programs. - Type: Company - Sector: Security - Status: Active - Founded: 2017-01-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/hacken ## Products - [Hacken Security Services](https://thegrid.id/profiles/hacken): Blockchain security and compliance services including smart contract audits, protocol audits, dApp audits, cross-chain bridge audits, crypto wallet audits, penetration testing, tokenomics audits, proof of reserves audits, AI security audits, and regulatory compliance consulting for MiCA, DORA, VARA, ISO 27001, and CCSS frameworks. Additional services include Virtual CISO advisory and DualDefense crowdsourced security reviews. (Smart Contract Audits, Live, Main Product) - [Extractor](https://thegrid.id/profiles/hacken): Real-time on-chain monitoring and compliance system that detects threats, analyzes smart contract activity, and provides automated incident response capabilities. The platform integrates multiple detection engines including Forta Attack Detector to monitor blockchain transactions across 17 networks and ensure regulatory compliance with MiCA, DORA, and FATF requirements. (Risk Assessment, Live) - [Security Assessments](https://thegrid.id/profiles/hacken): Hacken Security Assessments provides smart contract auditing and blockchain security reviews through manual code analysis and automated vulnerability detection. The service examines protocol architecture, identifies security risks, and delivers detailed audit reports with severity classifications. Assessments include penetration testing, code review, and compliance verification across multiple blockchain platforms, supporting EVM-compatible chains and layer-2 solutions. (Smart Contract Audits, Live) - [Hacken Compliance & Regulatory Readiness](https://thegrid.id/profiles/hacken): Regulatory readiness and compliance consulting for financial institutions, exchanges, and custodians working with digital assets. Hacken assesses organizations against MiCA, DORA, VARA, ISO 27001, and CCSS requirements, identifies gaps, and supports remediation. Services include Virtual CISO advisory for teams that need senior security leadership without a full-time hire. (Service Provider, Live) ## Assets - [HAI (HAI)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/hacken): HAI is the utility token of the Hacken ecosystem. It is used for paying cybersecurity services including smart contract audits and bug bounties, staking to earn rewards, and governance participation through hDAO voting. Stakers can mint stHAI to receive guaranteed allocations in early-stage Web3 investments and earn real yield through security prediction markets, with rewards paid in USDC from audit revenues. (Utility) ## Links - [Main](https://hacken.io) - [Documentation](https://docs.hacken.io) - [Privacy policy](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lNBg8HE9MD1mpSE0qMedrcKj79Z3l7QE/view) - [Terms of Service](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w4cQrJu51P-gg3TtGwBQhNcKebh4HNyg/view) - [Media Kit/branding](https://hackenio.cc/brand-assets) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/hackenclub) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hacken) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/hackenclub) - [Telegram](https://t.me/hackenai) - [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/hacken) ## Relationships - [HackenProof](https://thegrid.id/profiles/hackenproof): Subsidiary ## Legal This data is provided under two licensing models. Model 1 - open data. 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