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  • Smart Contract Security Glossary: Definitions That Point to Evidence

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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?

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    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

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    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

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    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

  • DeFi Security: Situation and Solution: Examples of DeFi Attacks Included

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    DeFi Security: Situation and Solution: Examples of DeFi Attacks Included

    When you land on this page, you might have already heard of or even been using Decentralized finance (DeFi) to keep your money. However, you may be concerned to know that this technology is also appealing to cyber criminals attempting to steal your assets. It was reported that 97% of cryptocurrency stolen in 2022's first quarter was from DeFi protocols.

  • Solana vulnerabilities: account checks, CPIs and arithmetic

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    Solana vulnerabilities: account checks, CPIs and arithmetic

    Solana security reviews must validate the accounts an instruction receives and the authority to use them. The program must enforce application rules, such as which vault belongs to a user, alongside memory safety and runtime checks.

  • Audit Builder

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    Audit Builder

    In this sense, a report has to reflect best all the issues uncovered during the audit. DeFi Security Alliance has come up with a tool that helps simplify the compilation of this final audit report.