Certified contributors who meet certain performance criteria within C4 gain the Certified Security Researcher (SR) role, which provides access to:
- Submissions to open competitive audits, immediately after submission deadline
- Post-judging QA
- Unrestricted number of submissions per audit
The criteria (visible on your Code4rena account screen) to become a Certified SR are as follows:
- Your
signalis 50% (0.5) or higher. This is shown at the top of the page, below the “User information” heading. - Your tax information has been accepted. Scroll down to the “Tax information” section to confirm that your tax information has been accepted. If not, you must submit it to qualify for the SR role.
- Your Github account is verified. You can check this in the “Contributor certification” section.
- Be approved as a Certified C4 contributor -- if all other criteria are met, then you’ll see an option to “Verify your identity.” (If this option is not shown, double-check that you have met all of the other criteria. It will not display unless all other criteria are met.)
- Abide by the Certified Contributor Terms and Conditions.
Contributors may lose their SR role by violating the code of professional conduct as outlined in the certified contributor agreement. This code asks wardens to:
- take an objective, collegial, and intellectually open tone in considering and discussing all findings
- treat wardens and sponsors, and all other Code4rena community members with respect and an assumption of positive intent
- avoid engaging in any discussion and evaluation of issues they submitted themselves except to answer a question or provide additional context requested by a judge or sponsor
- treat the contents of all findings as private and confidential until the audit report is made public.