Security Researcher Life Cycle. > Start out as a beginner > Become a highly paid professional by standing on the shoulders of SRs before you who were helpful and accommodating. > Start arguing that beginners should work harder and earn way less.

Bug bounty has been a lot of fun, I genuinely enjoy every inch of it. The challenges, the wins, the rush… it’s addictive. I make an incredible amount of money that I could never even think of doing it. But would I do this forever as my main thing? Honestly, no. As much as I

The Ignite Market crowdsourced audit is complete! ✅ 111 reports submitted ✅ 5 valid findings accepted ✅ $10,000 in rewards distributed ✅ 2 high severity issues uncovered Shoutout to top hackers like Tonraq for their solid work! 🫡

From now onwards, I’ll choose what’s harder but more fulfilling.

It’s really depressing I haven’t been able to get myself for a while, I submitted 4 - 5 critical bugs to a platform, with a seriously complex codebase only for the triager to either try to downgrade my report or invalidate it, meanwhile all have clear POCs that remain undisputed.

I feel so honored to be accepted into the Sigma Prime Internship program. And I would like to extend my gratitude to Andy Li for this bringing me into this space. My life change when I submitted a QA in the method he specified to earn the first time ever in my life! Thank you!

ThinkPad × Linux >>>>

The OpenEden crowdsourced audit is complete! ✅ 186 reports submitted ✅ 6 valid findings accepted ✅ $5,000 in rewards allocated Congratulations to all researchers — and special kudos to top hackers like Tonraq and Nemo 🫧.

Top 3 Hackers of the Week 🥇 Ranjeet Singh 🥈 Tonraq 🥉 Spk Great work, hunters! Keep it up — next week is yours.

🔥 Hacker Spotlight: Tonraq In just months, he’s delivered multiple critical reports on HackenProof, stopping serious exploits. Now ranked #77 and rising fast — with his skills, the Top 10 is only a matter of time. Keep pushing the boundaries, Tonraq 👏

Congratulations Tonraq good to see wins brought back home.

I'm not one to post much, but kudos to the HackenProof frontend devs! I'm seriously loving the new UI overhaul. Really good job, guys!

New week, new ranks. Top 3: 🥇Alex Babits 🥈Tonraq 🥉bareli Thank you for the effort and congratulations on the results! Want to be like them? Start hunting now: hackenproof.com/programs

Top 3 researchers this week: 🥇Tonraq 🥈zcai 🥉Schnilch Want your handle here? Join active programs: hackenproof.com/programs

This monad airdrop really showed that a lot of SRs don't fully understand tokenomics and general crypto economics. It's cool to know the technical side of web3, but it's not really enough.

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