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  • ERC4626 Vault Security: Rounding, Donations and Safe Integration

    EVM patterns

    ERC4626 Vault Security: Rounding, Donations and Safe Integration

    Protecting deposits requires an enforced execution bound as well as sound share accounting. ERC4626 vault security also extends to the oracle routes that turn shares into collateral: a rounding defense does not establish that an integrated lending market is safe.

    12 min read

  • Top 10 Regulated Crypto Developers for Crypto and DeFi Markets

    Services

    Top 10 Regulated Crypto Developers for Crypto and DeFi Markets

    Pharos Production leads this shortlist for MiCA-oriented crypto software delivery, followed by nine developers with different trading, tokenization and integration strengths. Choose regulated crypto developers by the evidence they can produce for your operating model. Our complete Article 62(2) census found 19 application information items, including 6 expressly tied to the intended service.

    13 min read

  • Auditing AI Generated Smart Contracts: Independent Requirements and Test Evidence

    Tooling

    Auditing AI Generated Smart Contracts: Independent Requirements and Test Evidence

    Generated code needs the same accountable review as any release, with extra attention to shared assumptions between code and tests. Auditing AI generated smart contracts starts with an independent specification, a frozen build and evidence that distinguishes failed analysis from completed checks.

    12 min read

  • Bridge Integration Checklist: Verify the Route, Receiver and Recovery Path

    Verticals

    Bridge Integration Checklist: Verify the Route, Receiver and Recovery Path

    A working transfer proves only one execution path. A bridge integration checklist should bind the selected route to its verification rules, application permissions and recovery behavior; a core messaging address alone does not establish token bridge support.

    12 min read

  • Crypto Security Score: Reading Methodology, Evidence and Unknowns

    Personas and market

    Crypto Security Score: Reading Methodology, Evidence and Unknowns

    A rating is useful when its inputs answer the risk question you actually have. A crypto security score should lead to dated evidence about code, authority and operations; the aggregate alone cannot establish deployment safety or investment suitability.

    12 min read

  • DeFi Insurance for Protocols: Scope, Exclusions and Claims Evidence

    Operations

    DeFi Insurance for Protocols: Scope, Exclusions and Claims Evidence

    Protection depends on a named claimant, position, event and wording. DeFi insurance for protocols can transfer a defined loss exposure, but an inventory entry or audit badge does not establish that cover is available or that a future claim will be paid.

    12 min read

  • Emergency Pause Circuit Breakers: Scope, Guardians and Recovery Tests

    Operations

    Emergency Pause Circuit Breakers: Scope, Guardians and Recovery Tests

    A pause flag works only where the application checks it and exposes an authorized way to change it. Emergency pause circuit breakers need an explicit operation scope, a guardian model and a tested recovery path before they can support incident containment.

    12 min read

  • Smart Contract Security Glossary: Definitions That Point to Evidence

    Audit deliverables

    Smart Contract Security Glossary: Definitions That Point to Evidence

    Security terms become useful when their scope and evidence are clear. This smart contract security glossary defines the objects, authorities and methods readers encounter in reports, then points to the next technical check instead of treating a label as proof of safety.

    14 min read

  • Token Listing Audit Requirements: Evidence Before Exchange Review

    Services

    Token Listing Audit Requirements: Evidence Before Exchange Review

    The required evidence depends on the venue and the asset it must support. Token listing audit requirements should be confirmed from the current official process before commissioning work; an audit, identity check or liquidity lock cannot guarantee acceptance.

    12 min read

  • Transaction Simulation Security: State, Signatures and Unknown Results

    Tooling

    Transaction Simulation Security: State, Signatures and Unknown Results

    A preview is an execution result under selected assumptions, not a promise about a future transaction. Transaction simulation security depends on the exact request, state reference, validation mode and authority being granted, including effects that do not move assets immediately.

    12 min read

  • Web3 Cybersecurity with Pharos Production: From Contract Code to Cloud

    Services

    Web3 Cybersecurity with Pharos Production: From Contract Code to Cloud

    Pharos Production publishes security services for contract code, applications and the infrastructure around them. Effective Web3 cybersecurity procurement connects those scopes to the assets being reviewed, the evidence delivered and the people who own remediation. Our complete service-page census identifies the dedicated destinations and the boundaries a buyer should confirm.

    12 min read

  • HashEx Solidity Certification

    HashEx Academy

    HashEx Solidity Certification

    One of the DSA members, HashEx offers a certification program that allows grading and confirming the skills of an auditor. HashEx Solidity Certificate is a document that auditors can obtain to confirm their level of Solidity fluency. HashEx has developed a test that best reflects the issues that auditors encounter on a daily basis.

  • Smart Contract Audit Report Examples: Ten Public Documents Annotated

    Audit deliverables

    Smart Contract Audit Report Examples: Ten Public Documents Annotated

    Public smart contract audit report examples are useful when they connect a reviewed artifact to findings, limitations and remediation evidence. Our deterministic sample of ten Trail of Bits documents shows why assessments and fix reviews must be read differently.

    12 min read

  • How to Tell a Fake Audit Report From a Real One

    Audit deliverables

    How to Tell a Fake Audit Report From a Real One

    A fake audit report is a document that claims a security review which never happened, or a real report that no longer describes the code you are about to use. Both are caught the same way, by checking the report against the two things it should name: the commit that was audited and the deployed address it maps to. This guide gives the procedure, and a measurement of how often published reports carry those anchors at all.

    13 min read

  • Why do you need several audits?

    DeFi Security Alliance

    Why do you need several audits?

    Auditing a project is a very important step in the process of developing a project. A security audit provides an independent review of the project's code and lists existing issues along with potential vulnerabilities that can cause the dApp to malfunction.

  • Solana Smart Contract Audit: Anchor, PDAs, CPI and Token-2022 Scope

    Chains

    Solana Smart Contract Audit: Anchor, PDAs, CPI and Token-2022 Scope

    Commission a Solana smart contract audit around account relationships, delegated privileges and the token behavior your program accepts. Our source-registry scan classified 28 Token-2022 extension types, showing why a program-ID check alone cannot define integration scope. Bring a pinned build and an explicit acceptance policy to the reviewer.

    12 min read

  • Smart Contract Fuzzing: Echidna, Medusa or Foundry for Which Situation

    Tooling

    Smart Contract Fuzzing: Echidna, Medusa or Foundry for Which Situation

    Fuzzing generates inputs and call sequences against compiled contracts and checks that stated properties hold. Echidna, Medusa and Foundry all do smart contract fuzzing, with different default budgets, coverage guidance, shrinking and setup cost, so the right pick depends on whether the bug you fear needs one input or a sequence of calls. This guide gives the decision path, a settings matrix from each tool's current documentation, and a scan of what the 30 largest DeFi protocols actually keep in their repositories.

    16 min read