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Immunefi lists $150M+ in bug bounties. The board doesn't tell you which ones are worth your weekend

Immunefi's board lists ~190 bug bounty programs and ~60 audit competitions, with top bounties up to $15,000,000 (LayerZero). If you hunt Web3 bugs, you've scrolled it. And you've probably noticed the sort order: by vault TVL. That's a fine number for Immunefi to showcase — it's just not your number.

Your number is: how much friction stands between me and getting paid?

Because the board hides the expensive part in each program's fine print:

  • KYC required? Excludes anonymous researchers entirely. On today's data: 132 of 248 programs require it, 116 don't.
  • Pay-to-submit fee? Some programs charge USDC just to file a report. 30 programs do; most researchers find out at submit time.
  • Proof of concept: "not required" vs "required" vs "runnable" is the difference between an evening and a week.
  • Invite-only? You can't even join.

Comparing that across 248 programs means opening 248 pages. So I scraped it — the data is all public, HTTP-only, no login.

One row per program

Immunefi Bug Bounty & Audit Competition Scraper pulls both boards in ~5 seconds and computes two scores per program:

frictionScore (0–100, lower = easier to get paid): KYC 35%, pay-to-submit fee 25%, PoC requirement 25%, invite-only 15%. Normalized over what the program actually publishes — unknown fields don't fake a score.

opportunityScore (0–100, "worth my weekend?"): bounty size 45% (log-scaled — bounties span four orders of magnitude), low friction 25%, program upkeep 15% (freshly updated = actually maintained), payout assurance 15% (funded vault + Safe Harbor + Immunefi Standard).

{
  "project": "Sky",
  "board": "bug-bounty",
  "maxBountyUsd": 10000000,
  "kycRequired": false,
  "payToSubmit": false,
  "proofOfConceptType": "required",
  "inviteOnly": false,
  "frictionScore": 15,
  "daysSinceUpdate": 21.1,
  "opportunityScore": 88.8
}
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A $10M max bounty with no KYC and no submit fee is a very different object from a $10M bounty behind KYC + $500 USDC + runnable PoC. The default board renders them identically.

Three queries the board can't answer

"Anonymous-friendly, big money": { "kycRequired": false, "minMaxBountyUsd": 1000000, "sortBy": "opportunity" } — today that's a shortlist of 16 programs, Sky's $10M at the top.

"Live audit competitions with a deadline": competitions carry rewardsPoolUsd, endDate and daysUntilEnd — deadline-driven work with a fixed pool, deduplicated against the bounty board.

"Recently maintained only": daysSinceUpdate filters out programs nobody has touched in a year. A stale program page is a weak signal the triage queue is stale too.

Schedule it

The board changes daily (Immunefi updates program metrics every day, and competitions open/close on deadlines). One scheduled run per morning:

  1. Actor page → ⋯ → Schedule, cron 0 7 * * *
  2. Input: { "sortBy": "opportunity", "excludeInviteOnly": true }
  3. Full run over 248 programs costs about $0.30 (pay-per-event, from $1.20/1k results).

The Actor ships a typed output schema and works over MCP, so an AI agent can call it as a tool — "find me no-KYC bounties over $1M updated this month" becomes a filter, not a scraping project.

Fair-use note

Everything scraped is on Immunefi's public pages — no login, no private program data, no vulnerability reports, and the Actor doesn't help you bypass anything (the friction fields tell you the rules; they don't break them). Rate is one HTTP request per board per run.


Try it: https://apify.com/tactful_anvil/immunefi-bug-bounty-audit-competition-scraper

Found a program with wrong data, or want another field (languages, ecosystems and vault balances are already in there)? Issues tab on the Actor page — parser bugs get fixed.

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