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Timur Guvenkaya

Security reviews, secure design, and advisory for high-stakes digital systems.

Guvenkaya Advisory is a principal-led security review, secure design, and advisory firm for high-stakes digital systems, with 24M+ users protected and $19.2B+ in volume secured. Founded in 2022, the firm helps digital asset operators, financial institutions, and crypto-native teams improve the systems behind digital value.

Guvenkaya’s work spans smart contracts and blockchain systems, applications and APIs, cloud and network infrastructure, custody and key-management models, wallet and signer workflows, secure architecture, reserve-backed asset reviews, technical due diligence, and risk assessment. Engagements are principal-accountable by design: scope, communication, delivery judgment, and final reporting are owned by a named senior practitioner, with specialist advisors brought in when the risk model requires deeper expertise.

The firm has worked with recognized digital asset and blockchain ecosystem teams, including NEAR, NEAR Foundation, Sweat Economy, Enjin, and Aurora. Its public track record spans NEAR, Solana, Polkadot/Substrate, Rust smart contracts, trading systems, protocol infrastructure, custody-adjacent workflows, and digital asset operations.

Public references from NEAR Foundation, Sweat Economy, and Aurora describe Guvenkaya’s Rust and smart contract expertise, wider-perimeter security thinking, iterative delivery, and ability to help teams build robust systems beyond a one-off audit. The leadership and advisory team brings experience from blockchain security engineering, enterprise vulnerability detection, exchanges, custody, payments, financial institutions, and institutional digital asset platforms at a multi-billion-dollar scale.

Founder Timur Güvenkaya previously established and led a security engineering practice for complex blockchain systems and helped build enterprise security detection engines at Invicti used by Fortune 50 companies and public-sector organizations. Advisors bring security experience from Agora, EY, Kraken, Binance, Cisco, and 60+ Web3 project reviews.

Guvenkaya is best suited for teams that need senior security judgment before launch, major architecture decisions, custody or tokenization initiatives, institutional diligence, reserve-backed asset reviews, or board/customer/regulatory scrutiny.

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