Organization Name – Hashlock

Category – Security & Identity

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Hashlock is one of Australia’s better-known smart-contract security firms — Sydney-headquartered, founded in 2022, focused on auditing, attack simulation, and continuous on-chain monitoring for Web3 protocols. Readers evaluating security firms should apply the same adversarial reading the firm’s own work applies to client code, and Hashlock’s public record largely holds up to that scrutiny.

The achievements log records concrete dated events. The 2023 acquisition of StealthTest — an API-driven Web3 developer platform — extended Hashlock’s tooling beyond manual audits into ongoing… infrastructure. The 2024 RMA award is recorded in the file, and the certification context deserves disclosure: VaaSBlock is both the publisher of this profile and the issuer of the certification. Risk Management, Marketing, and Background pillars are Verified. Team Proficiency and Results Delivered carry Standard Exceeded marks; the remaining sub-pillars are at Standard Met or Category Exempted (Revenue Model). VB1 business registration is Verified. Within VaaSBlock’s Security and Identity category Hashlock ranks 5 of 20 on transparency.

One file-quality flag worth surfacing. The domain creation date is recorded as September 2016, more than five years before the 2022 launch claim — almost certainly an acquired or repurposed domain rather than a substantive history. The achievements log should clarify this. For a security firm, where domain-age signals can be misread as operational maturity, transparent disclosure of the domain provenance is worth doing pre-emptively.

The team page is thin for a 11-50-employee firm. Co-founder Jock Haslam and Director Fletcher Roberts are listed but neither is identity-verified in the file. For a smart-contract auditor whose customers are themselves liability-exposed for the contracts they ship, identity-verified senior auditors would be the cheapest single trust signal available. The Peaq ecosystem partnership and Milk Road’s 2024 review are externally retrievable third-party signals. Read More