ApeSwap just got SAFU-er 🔒🐒🌴

Rug Doc and Paladin join our Jungle Family 🥰

4 min readOct 17, 2021

Dear Apes, Apettes, and every animal few and far between! We could not be more excited to share this wonderful news with you. 📰

Whether we are having new contracts audited multiple times, being as transparent and available as we can at all hours of the day, or bringing new partners into the Jungle, security is at the heart of everything we do. ❤️

With that said, we believe it is vital to the safety of every major project that they have a reliable third and fourth set of eyes to double check everything they do. So, without further adieu, allow me to introduce to you our friends, Rug Doc and Paladin!

Although they need no introduction, it would bring me great pleasure to tell you a little bit about these incredible projects and how they will provide another layer of added security to everything we do at ApeSwap.

Rug Doc 🩺

The friendly folks over at Rug Doc are known for their incredible willingness to offer a constant watchful eye over DeFi. The team is constantly going through different protocols on BSC, Polygon, Avalanche, and more, in order to ensure that users are well informed about where they are investing. These services are truly unparalleled in scale or quality within the space — by this I mean that the Rug Doc team is working constantly, virtually around the clock, and has reviewed hundreds (maybe even thousands) of protocols.

What inspires me about this team is that their reviews cannot be bought, they do them for free and therefore are under no obligation to anyone. They review honestly and fairly — and in the interest of transparency, these friendly folks have saved our butts a time or two. 😅

Tangibly this means that their team will be on the lookout for SAFU projects that are looking for a home, which we can provide. 🏡 In addition they will pay special attention to projects within our ecosystem to ensure that nothing sneaks past us. Thank you, Rug Doc and team, for keeping watch! 💪

Paladin 🛡

The Paladin team is composed of the most impressive auditors recruited from several gold standard auditing firms across crypto. They specialize in thorough audits that are solution oriented, meaning they do not just point out vulnerabilities but they offer coaching and expert advice on how to solve every issue that they find. Not only is their work incredibly meticulous, but they are also able to utilize their expertise to complete audits at much faster speeds than their competitors.

We are extremely fortunate and excited to announce that Paladin is one of our official preferred auditors, joining the ranks of our longtime friends CryptEx/HashEx. We have found the work that they do is extremely valuable and that every partner of ours that has had the privilege of working with them has had a phenomenal experience.

Safety First 🦺

I am happy to say that you can rest your head a little bit easier at night now. With the addition of these two titans of the security industry to the fam, we are very proud to say that the ApeSwap Jungle is one of the most SAFU places in DeFi. 💪

So, what does this mean practically? This means that in order to get officially endorsed by ApeSwap a project will need the thumbs up from our new frens. 👯‍♂️

With that said, if you are developing a project on BSC or Polygon and want your community to know that you take safety seriously then you should probably make sure you stay within The Jungle; this means using the safest LPs in Defi: Ape-LPs, routing swaps through our tried and true router, and of course remaining under the watchful eye of Rug Doc and Paladin. 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️