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# Summer of Clearinghouses

**Source:** Unknown  
**Published:** July 9, 2026  
**Original:** https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/summer-of-clearinghouses.html  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena, and the main thing that sets it apart is that it was already real and running when we announced it — built quietly months earlier, heads down, taking findings and shipping fixes, because customers kept asking us to. We only announced it now because everyone else started announcing theirs,

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