Smart Contract Security Guides
Security checklists, integration risks, and audit preparation for protocol founders and engineers. Explore wallets, Solana tokens, DeFi vaults, DEX hooks, and cross-chain systems.
Protocol Security and Integration Risks
Sourced technical explainers with concrete scenarios to include in a security review.
Smart Contract Security in 2026: What to Include in an Audit
Plan a broader smart contract audit scope for 2026: wallet permissions, protocol integrations, upgrades, and operational controls that affect user funds.
EIP-7702 Security: A Smart Account Audit Checklist
Scope an EIP-7702 smart account audit around delegation, initialization, signatures, session permissions, storage changes, and relayer assumptions.
Solana Token-2022 Audit: Extensions, Hooks and Authorities
Review Solana Token-2022 integrations for transfer fees, hook accounts, token-program validation, privileged authorities, and withdrawal compatibility.
Uniswap v4 Hook Audit: Permissions, Callbacks and Accounting
Prepare a Uniswap v4 hook audit covering callback permissions, pool isolation, caller validation, custom accounting, fees, and adversarial test scenarios.
ERC-4626 Vault Audit: Rounding, Donations and Withdrawals
Scope an ERC-4626 vault audit around share accounting, inflation attacks, donation handling, liquidity, fees, and integrations that value vault shares.
Cross-Chain Audit Checklist: Trust and Failure Recovery
Plan a cross-chain security audit covering message authentication, source validation, replay, asset accounting, retries, and administrative controls.
RWA Tokenization Audit: Permissions, Identity and Redemption
Scope an RWA smart contract audit for permissioned tokens, identity registries, minting, recovery, transfer restrictions, and redemption accounting.
Audit Planning and Engineering Fundamentals
Understand cost, timing, preparation, and the security checks behind a useful report.
How to Choose a Smart Contract Auditor
Compare smart contract auditors on relevant public work, code scope, reviewer responsibility, reporting, remediation and pricing before requesting a quote.
What Is a Smart Contract Audit?
A technical guide to smart contract audits, what auditors review, what clients receive, and how audits reduce blockchain protocol risk.
Smart Contract Audit Checklist
A practical smart contract audit checklist covering scope, access control, accounting, oracles, upgrades, tests, deployment, and remediation.
How to Prepare for a Smart Contract Audit
How protocol teams can prepare repositories, documentation, tests, deployment details, and scope before a smart contract audit.
Manual vs Automated Smart Contract Auditing
Why automated tools help smart contract auditors, where tools fail, and why manual security review is necessary for protocol logic.
How Long Does a Smart Contract Audit Take?
A guide to smart contract audit timelines, scope complexity, remediation, fix verification, and what affects scheduling.
How Much Does a Smart Contract Audit Cost?
What affects smart contract audit cost, including code size, complexity, blockchain ecosystem, documentation, testing, and remediation needs.
Rust Smart Contract Security
Rust smart contract security guide covering Solana, Anchor, CosmWasm, NEAR, Substrate, serialization, unsafe Rust, CPI, and state validation.
Solana Program Security
Solana program security guide covering PDA validation, signer checks, account ownership, CPI vulnerabilities, account confusion, and Anchor constraints.
Solidity Vulnerability Review
Solidity security guide covering reentrancy, access control, oracle manipulation, signatures, proxies, storage collisions, MEV, and accounting risk.
Turn preparation into an audit-ready scope
When the repository is frozen and documentation is ready, CTDSEC can review the scope and audit timeline.