1. Kali Linux is the gold standard for information security tasks such as Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking and network security assessments.
2. Kali, however, isn't equipped to support the security needs of blockchain and smartcontract development.
3. Halborn developed ZIION to bridge the gap between what Kali is missing and what blockchain developers need - a turnkey OS with all the tools needed to securely build and dvelop in web3 and blockchain.

1. Blockchain development and security testing should be easier.
2. The blockchain security engineers at Halborn needed a turnkey VM with all the best blockchain security tools needed, already compiled.
3. They wanted to reduce friction points by having a working and tested VM for each architecture and protocol family.

• It was also developed to support Halborn's role in creating and operationalizating the blockchain and smart contract security curriculum provided by the SANS institute and in sole partnership with Halborn.
• ZIION was developed by blockchain security engineers, for blockchain security engineers.

• ZIION is opensource, free to use and provided as a service to the broader security community.

EVM:

• brownie
• ganache
• geth
• manticore
• mythril
• RemixIDE
• slither
• sol2uml
• solc
• solc-select
• Solidity Visual Developer VSCode extension
• Solidity VS code extension
• Truffle

Protocol Tools:

• anchor-cli
• Algorand Sandbox
• Kurtosis NEAR module
• LocalTerra & terracli
• near-cli
• polkadot
• polkadot-launch
• Solana Tool Suite
• terrajs & TerraSDK
• scribble
• secretcli
• SecretJS
• subflood
• sidecar
• substrate-front-end-template
• substrate-node-template

Wallets:

• Terra Station
• Keplr
• phantom
• MetaMask
• Coinbase Wallet
• Solflare

IDE:

• VSCodium (open-source alternative to Microsoft VSCode)
• CodeLLDB
• crates
• Even Better TOML
• Flowistry
• rust-analyzer
• VisualSolana

CLI:

• rustup, rustc, cargo
• golang
• afl.rs
• cargo-audit
• cargo-deny
• cargo-deps
• cargo-download
• cargo-expand
• cargo-fix
• cargo-fuzz
• cargo-geiger
• cargo-generate
• cargo-inspect
• cargo-outdated
• cargo-spellcheck
• cargo-sweep
• cargo-tree
• certora-cli
• depdive
• echidna
• errcheck
• Gofuzz
• Gosec
• honggfuzz-rs
• MIRI
• poc_framework
• rust-clippy
• rustfilt
• rustfmt
• semgrep
• Shadow
• siderophile
• solgraph
• Soteria
• staticcheck
• tarpaulin
• tealer
• unconvert
• valgrind

Deps:

• binutils-dev
• build-essential
• docker docker-compose
• clang
• libblocksruntime-dev
• liblzma-dev
• libssl-dev
• libudev-dev
• libunwind-dev
• llvm
• apt-transport-https
• ca-certificates
• curl
• gnupg-agent
• software-properties-common
• Python
• graphviz
• nodejs, npm and yarn

Specs:

• docs.ziion.org

• Anyone looking for a turnkey VM to get started with blockchain development with an emphasis on security.

• Dev documents are available at docs.ziion.org

• Download links are available at www.ziion.org/download

• Yes. Halborn will establish an infrastructure to allow developers to make suggestions and improvement to the platform over time.

• Additional technical information can be found at docs.ziion.org.