About Sherlock
Sherlock is building the security backbone for onchain systems - a platform designed to keep protocols protected before, during, and after launch. Through aligning world-class researchers, advanced auditing technology, and financial coverage, Sherlock delivers trust at the scale the global financial system requires.
Collaborative audits, global contests, live bug bounties, and coverage all work together to provide continuous protection as protocols evolve. Sherlock’s model gives builders the confidence to innovate quickly and users the assurance that what they rely on is secure.
Our Story
Sherlock was founded in 2021 after watching the same failures repeat across Web3. Protocols raised real capital, users trusted the code, and when things broke, the damage was permanent. Audits existed, but they stopped at reports. Accountability stopped there too.
Sherlock started by standing behind the work with financial coverage. That was the first step toward aligning incentives and taking responsibility for outcomes, not just opinions. As the space grew, it became clear that protecting onchain systems required more than one intervention at one moment in time.
Over the years, Sherlock expanded how security work gets done. Open contests, bug bounties, and collaborative audits brought more eyes, stronger pressure, and better signal. More recently, Sherlock AI pushed security earlier into development, where most risk actually begins.Today, Sherlock exists to protect onchain systems as they are built, launched, and used in the real world, where mistakes carry real consequences.
Our Mission
Sherlock’s mission is to help secure an open, uncensorable financial system that billions of people can trust with real value.
This means taking security seriously as a long term responsibility. Not optimizing for appearances, headlines, or short term reassurance, but building systems that reduce failure, surface hard truths, and hold up under adversarial conditions.
Onchain systems do not get second chances. Sherlock exists to protect them accordingly.
Leadership
Built on the belief that auditing should be efficient, transparent, and trustworthy.
Jack attended the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley while playing Division I tennis. He worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, and did long/short equity investing in financial services companies at Citadel where he learned how broken the US financial system is.
Evert graduated from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, earning a bachelor’s degree in Technical Informatics, Computer Engineering and Technical Computer Science. In 2017, Evert co-founded an artificial intelligence startup focused on personal assistants trained by machine learning before getting interested in the security space.
