Stephen Tong

Stephen is the co-founder and CEO of Zellic, a blockchain security and auditing firm. Zellic secures over $3B+ of on-chain TVL for clients including LayerZero, Aptos Labs, Mysten Labs, and the Solana Foundation. Stephen was inspired to start Zellic after hearing countless reports of subpar audits from founders and builders. Before Zellic, Stephen hacked iPhones as a vulnerability researcher at Dataflow Security. He is an expert in low-level systems engineering and security. Separately, he also worked at the trading firm Two Sigma. His aim is to provide the best blockchain security services in the world to Web3 builders, investors, and users.