Verdict Machine GTM brain

Verdict Machine provides AI-driven on-chain cybersecurity and transaction controls to financial institutions and digital asset infrastructure providers.

category

Institutional digital asset security

market profile

  • text: Institutions deploying stablecoins or tokenized assets need transaction security alongside custody and compliance.
  • text: The company reports early proofs of concept with asset managers and digital asset infrastructure providers, plus bank evaluations.

personas

  • title: Head of digital asset security
    pains:
    • Preventing an authorized operator from signing a malicious transaction
    • Mapping risk across wallets, smart contracts and providers
  • title: Digital asset risk or due diligence lead
    pains:
    • Assessing protocol and counterparty cyber risk as exposures change
    • Documenting controls for institutional risk reviews
  • title: Stablecoin payments operations lead
    pains:
    • Screening wallets and transactions without slowing payment operations
    • Applying institution-specific policies before irreversible settlement

icp

  • text: Banks and asset managers with live or planned digital asset, stablecoin or tokenized asset activity.
  • text: Digital asset infrastructure providers and DeFi organizations handling institutional transaction flows; no size threshold is published.

message pillars

  • text: Assess risk across the institution's full on-chain environment.
  • text: Enforce policies before a proposed transaction executes.
  • text: Reuse the live model across ongoing security workflows.

objections

  • objection: We already have custody and compliance tools.
    response: Explore whether existing tools evaluate transaction cyber risk in the context of your entire institution; validate overlap in a pilot.
  • objection: Will transaction controls block legitimate activity?
    response: Test proposed policies against historical and live workflows and measure false positives before enforcement.
  • objection: Is this mature enough for a bank?
    response: The company describes proofs of concept and bank evaluations; request technical evidence and references appropriate to your risk process.

competitors

  • name: Agio Ratings
    why: Digital asset cyber risk assessment alternative identified alongside Verdict Machine.
  • name: Lockchain
    why: Digital asset risk and security alternative identified in the same competitor set.
  • name: Chainalysis
    why: Overlapping wallet screening and on-chain risk intelligence.

keywords

  • institutional digital asset security
  • on chain transaction security
  • crypto wallet screening
  • stablecoin transaction monitoring
  • digital asset cyber risk
  • smart contract risk management

voice

  • security-led
  • institutional
  • urgent and direct

signals

  • text: A bank launches a stablecoin or tokenized asset initiative.
  • text: An asset manager expands exposure to DeFi protocols and must conduct continuing cyber diligence.

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • YC launch
  • founder outreach

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Dan Danay
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Co-founder and CEO at Verdict Machine (YC S26). Previously Head of Blockchain Security at Check Point (NASDAQ:CHKP), launching their digital assets division. Founded keyTango (MPC-powered crypto clearing house) and Airmada (YC W16, automated drone stations). MIT Sloan MBA. Captain in Israeli Navy, commanded missile ship and naval electronics school.
  • name: Isaac Grossman
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Co-founder and CTO at Verdict Machine (YC S26). Previously VP Engineering at Fhenix, where he led development of an FHE-enabled L2, and at SCRT Labs, where he helped scale Secret Network to a top-100 crypto asset. Co-founded keyTango, an MPC-powered crypto clearing house.
  • name: Liran Kogan
    title: Founder/CPO
    role: CPO
    bio: Co-founder and CPO at Verdict Machine (YC S26). Previously launched and led blockchain-security products at Check Point (NASDAQ: CHKP), and led payments and FX products at Payoneer (NASDAQ: PAYO). NYU + INSEAD.

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