CertiK – a blockchain security company – has collected more than $60M in funding from Tiger Global and SoftBank, further fortifying its position as a unicorn in the industry following the collection of a joint valuation of up to $290M during nine months.

The funding is conducted at a point when the advancement across the Web3 space is being elevated on the behalf of the blockchain community along with the establishment of exclusive use cases concerning virtual ecosystems, particularly in DeFi (decentralized finance), and NFTs (non-fungible tokens) as well as gaming world. Monier Jalal – the marketing president at CertiK – elaborated in his statement that when a rapid development occurs there are chances for mistakes to happen.

He added that in the present advancement of Web3, security is usually counted as an extra which is quite dangerous. In his words, hackers aim at the novice maturity in the case of unique infrastructure for example cross-chain bridges as well as DeFi-based lending projects taking into account flash loans. According to Jalal, DeFi protocols and digital assets’ financial nature escalates their rewards to a great extent as compared with the products built on Web2.

He disclosed that the degree of the influence in addition to the mounting trends across the progress of the Web3 world as well as the subsequent hacks are the things that indicate the requirement for security in Web3, he revealed. Considerable attention has been given by venture funds to blockchain security facilities. Formerly this month, more than $88M was raised by CertiK in a funding round of Series B3 that doubled its valuation by placing it at $2B in funding conducted on the behalf of Advent International, Tiger Global, and Insight Partners.

In December of the recent year, the firm gathered nearly $80M in a funding round led by Sequoia. Throughout the industry of cryptocurrency, the routine headlines are usually filled with vulnerabilities dealing with security. In January, ImmuneFi (a bug bounty facility) organized a study that brought to the front that an approximate amount of $10.2B in funds was extracted solely in the last year.

Previously this month, it was reported that Ronin Bridge of Axie Infinity (a game based on blockchain) got hacked and almost $600M was drained by the attackers after they were capable of accessing the validator nodes’ private keys.