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For us, seeing all the problems in web2 and traditional finance, we wanted to make sure those were prevented in the future, and we want to make sure we're a part of that change. Phishing and social engineering attacks have been successful for way too long and it's time to fix that. Web3 technology has advanced faster than Web2-based security tech’s ability to adapt to it. As NFTs and crypto wallets gain popularity, a window for new, sophisticated, and malicious attacks has opened. Between 2020 and 2021 alone, cryptocurrency theft rose 516%, to $3.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency. In 2021, the reported median loss per hack was $1,900, according to a Federal Trade Commission report. As you can tell, we're security folks at heart, and we want that ingrained into everything! We're decentralized security, doing what Satoshi did for ledgers, for security. Decentralization is the next logical step in the equation.
We've been building startups for nearly 10 years, we're not going anywhere. 😉 That said, all of us have been doxed on our materials and none of us are hiding from view. We're here to make lasting value for everyone: investors, customers, community members, and ourselves.
Of course. Being that we're a security company we take auditing, both from a smart contract perspective, as well as from a security perspective, very seriously. Our smart contracts are going through rigorous auditing now and into the future using the best companies we can find. Most of my time as a professional hacker involved a form of auditing, so I will vet all auditors at a higher standard than most.
We believe that $ILOCK token will grow in value because it's tied to tangible outcomes for our users and customers. For example, our enterprise customers will use $ILOCK to buy threat data from us—and our users will be paid for generating that threat data while staying protected with our browser extension. This creates an immediate market for our token. Everyone who joins into the project early will be part of that growth journey and we want early adopters to see our ecosystem grow into more and more products that benefit individuals, enterprises, and most importantly, Web3.
Our roadmap is here: https://interlock-network.github.io/interlock-whitepaper/#roadmap
We add to the roadmap all the time, so please come back to it often!
Yes, and that process hasn't stopped. Being that we've built startups since 2013, we always work to build what our customers and clients want most. We are still open to that feedback and want to continue to adapt to the needs of both customers and cybersecurity.
Our ideal consumer customer is anyone who wants to stay safe from attacks online — especially DeFi users, who are constantly under attack from hackers and phishing attacks.
Our ideal enterprise customer is a 100+ person company that is forward thinking, needs security for their browsers, and is in the fintech, technology, or financial sectors.
We will definitely consider making more training content but thankfully on the product side, it's very easy! Once you install the extension, it does most of the work while you earn. More will come later for sure.
For now, feel free to join our social channels to keep up with us and chat about what we do, someone is always around: https://linktr.ee/interlockWeb3
You’re talking about our bounty hunter group, which is on our roadmap for later this year. It will be a special, invite-only group with extremely cool prizes and rewards: Think NFTs, extra tokens, and prestigious positions in the network.
We're REALLY excited about our bounty hunters. Keep an eye on our socials in the future where we'll share more details about how you can become one and earn $ILOCK by securing the internet.
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We're the first Web3 blockchain-based security company with a sensor network created by our users. Everyone with the extension is participating in making the network stronger for themselves and the companies/projects they use and like. This wasn't possible before blockchain and crypto!
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We have an enterprise product and we’re making this strong security available to everyone, everywhere! The enterprise product is live and has paying customers with thousands of users. Our consumer version will be just as powerful.
We'll be protecting projects and individuals, differently but cohesively. By integrating our Trust & Safety products into projects, it will enable people to understand risk and prevent fraud before they sign that wrong smart contract or interact with a malicious user.
In the browser, we're actively stopping attacks across many facets, but mostly focusing on stopping malicious pages and bad downloads. We can also stop ice phishing and prevent you from interacting with bad contracts in your wallet.
I think our biggest achievement is building a great team with great investors! We're lucky — every project has great tech but it's more important, in my opinion, to have a great team.
Our browser extension is the first product in our ecosystem of community-driven security products to protect DeFi. It blocks ads and protects you from browser based threats.
Our browser extension protects you from all types of browser threats including: Phishing, Coin Theft, Resource Theft (illicit mining), Pump/Dump Campaign Alert, Illicit Service Wallet Addresses (drugs, sex, violence, coin tumblers, embargoed, etc.), Malvertising, Malicious Browser Extensions, Malicious Scripts, Spearphishing, Icephishing, Scam Coins, Scam Wallet Addresses, Scam Wallet Software, Scam Exchange, Scam Swapper...etc.
Interlock maintains and grows a visual model database of over 67.83 billion pages — over 6 petabytes of visual data. We use it to power our enterprise solution, which analyzes over 12 trillion links per year to prevent web attacks in real-time, zero-day, or otherwise.
Our browser extension uses this database to account for context within the browser in order to identify malicious sites in real-time — even if they’ve never been reported or seen before.
No, our consumer product is a browser extension you can install in your favorite browser, be it Firefox or a Chromium-based browser.
Our browser extension supports Firefox and chromium-based browsers like Chrome, Brave and Microsoft Edge.
We’re backed by top tier Web3 investors: Outlier Ventures, 8186 Ventures, GAINS, Pluto, KON, MaxStealth, RBC, FishDAO, Damo Labs, Waterdrip Capital, and Scorpio VC.
Interlock was founded by YCombinator alumnus and has a team with decades of experience in building security products. We're here to make lasting value for everyone: investors, customers, community members, and ourselves.
Yes, it will block nearly all types of internet advertising — everything from big blinking banners to search ads and video pre-rolls and all the rest.
Interlock respects our users’ privacy. You choose exactly what data to share with us. The more you share, the more $INTR you earn. And you can always choose to share nothing at all!
If you face any technical problems you can ask for help in our 📘 #Help-Centre channel on Discord.
No, this is a distributed application built on top of existing blockchains, Solana and Ethereum.
We are building our smart contracts on top of Solana, but we are minting out tokens on Ethereum, and we bridge the two worlds using Wormhole.
The Solana platform has addressed many of the outstanding problems found in similar popular blockchains like Ethereum: transaction speed, energy efficiency, infinite smart contract loops, etc. While our idea is — in principle — possible to implement on most blockchains, doing so on Solana would help us scale more easily and also more cheaply. Additionally we think that the Solana development stack is well-documented and robust enough to act as a solid foundation for the Interlock Network. And lastly, Solana's growing popularity will help us attract new contributors to the project. We chose to mint out tokens on Ethereum because that chain has a large user-base and ecosystem and we would like to be compatible with it. To that end we use Wormhole to allow people to transfer their $ILOCK Tokens between chains.
Microsoft'S ION project is a decentralized P2P identity network — it does not yet have features pertaining to *trust* and *security*. Same goes for any other identity network, like fractal, cheqd, and Soverin.
Very simply, you install our extension, and it detects fraudulent websites as you browse in real time, while preventing you from divulging any sensitive information to said website. The extension also allows you to flag harmful websites that we miss, or unflag nonharmful websites. You can also choose to share some/all/none (the default is none) of your browsing data with us, so that we can enrich our threat-intelligence dataset. For doing these things you can receive $ILOCK Tokens, which you can exchange for other currencies at an exchange, or use them with our other products. You can also use these tokens to *stake* any grey-area-entities that we have accumulated (i.e. entities that our heuristics have not been able to categorize as a high-probability threat or non-threat) — we are letting software do what it excels at (i.e. approximate categorization at scale), and letting people do things they are good at (i.e. precise and nuanced disambiguation) via crowdsourcing.
Obviously the underlying blockchains — Solana and Ethereum — are both open source. Also, all of our smart contracts are open source — because that is just how blockchain works. Our uBlock-based browser-extension is also open source. The backend parts of our stack (i.e. the data-processing pipeline and our database) are closed source — as are our web-frontends (i.e. the dashboard for stakers). We *may* open source the backend components, once they become more mature, or if the community expresses interest in it.
Interlock is not a security company — we are a web3 focused information and data company founded by people who have years of experience in the security space. You could think of us as a next generation security company, or a security company for the web3 era.
The Interlock Network is built around anonymous accounts — we never require you to identify yourself with a phone number or an email address. You can have as many accounts as you want, and if you want to link any of those accounts to your real-world identity, that is up to you.
We try to make the network as accessible as possible. Initially we plan to offer a web interface and a browser extension. These two interfaces are not interchangeable and serve different purposes.
The web-interface lets you access and query the data collected from the Interlock Network — it is basically a web interface to a database. The Interlock Extension actively protects you from phishing attacks and block advertisements — you can also use it to interact with the Interlock Network.
People earn $ILOCK Tokens in many ways some being by using our extension passively and anonymously sharing a subset of their browsing data, or by actively flagging and staking grey-area-entities. With many other options still being explored.
Regarding technical contribution, we will follow an RFD/RFC model where project design documents are proposed and discussed on various community channels (i.e. github, discord, and others). If the project and community get large enough, we will likely adopt a governance model akin to Rust's. We diverge from the traditional RFC process in that we (a) adopt proposals by voting via smart contract and (b) developers can show their support and affinity for each other and their ideas by using the upvote/downvote mechanism that is already in place. We do not require separate personal and developer accounts, but we also do not require the same account. Keeping with the theme of privacy and anonymity a developer can have as many accounts as they want and the project/community would have no way of knowing — which is already the situation in the real world (i.e. one can make as many GitHub accounts as they want). Decisions must be consensed upon — proposals require unanimous approval. Unanimous consensus is meant to eliminate the competitive nature of voting — all disagreements should be resolved at the discussion phase before a proposal comes to a vote. We believe that there are very few true and unresolvable contradictions in engineering. Proposals can be resubmitted for voting.
We plan on pursuing a variety of fund-raising strategies. For starters we plan on doing a DAICO.
We are fully open source and will happily accept coding contributions. Also, keep an eye out for updates because we are planning on financing bug bounty programs using our $ILOCK Token in the future.
We would appreciate any kind of documentation or evangelism in the form of writing. We would happily compensate you using the $ILOCK Token.
We currently have an active presence on Discord and Telegram.
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