Range: Security infrastructure for the interchain and beyond

Range Security
Interchain Ecosystem Blog
2 min readApr 3, 2024

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Range is the leading security and risk platform for blockchains and rollups, helping the best protocols of the interchain to protect their users and funds. Projects such as Osmosis, dYdX, Noble, and Neutron trust Range for security infrastructure in decentralized finance in the IBC ecosystem and beyond.

Range has built an AI-powered modular security infrastructure stack for application-specific blockchain and rollups, focusing on cross-chain applications and interoperability protocols such as IBC.

The Range suite comprises 4 main verticals:

  • Monitoring and Threat Prevention. We detect and prevent security breaches and performance issues in our partner protocols. Their teams and the broader community can receive real-time alerts and notifications before it’s too late via the Range application or their preferred communication channel (e.g., Slack, Telegram).
  • Transaction Security. The transaction simulator of Range lets users understand the risk of any transaction before signing it and simulate its outputs in real time. They’re supporting wallets in the ecosystem to better protect their users against phishing and scams.
  • Risk Analytics and Incident Response. We help chains understand usage patterns and net inflows with customized dashboards, detecting and responding to anomalies with built-in workflows and machine learning.
  • Forensics and Compliance. Users and project teams can visualize funding patterns, track wallets, report fraudulent activity, and perform due diligence (KYB/KYT) on your counterparties.

Through the Range platform, various ecosystem participants, such as blockchain teams, DeFi protocols, wallet and infrastructure providers, and financial institutions, improve their systems and protocols’ security and UX standpoint, preparing them for mainstream and institutional adoption.

One of the Range team’s key tenets is democratizing security in web3. That’s why they’ve created community and free versions of some of their most successful products. For example, users can:

  • Use the alerting and Range Trail capabilities by visiting app.range.org
  • Track their USDC cross-chain transactions via Noble with our CCTP’s native bridge explorer: usdc.range.org
  • Or track inflows and outflows for IBC rate limited assets in Osmosis and Stride: ibc.range.org

In the words of Andres Monty, co-founder of Range:

“In the last few months, the industry has realized that the original Cosmos vision was right. App-specific rollups and blockchains are the best way to build decentralized applications, as validated by dYdX, optimized for performance and efficiency, and captured MEV value.

On top of that, we believe this new paradigm will enable the industry to build genuinely secure protocols and applications and avoid the billions of dollars of hacks that have harmed the mainstream and institutional adoption of this technology wave. That’s why Range exists, to make this a reality”.

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