The most read and bookmarked articles on smart contract security, chosen by our community of developers and auditors.
AI can accelerate smart contract auditing, but only when the auditor can verify outputs, reject false positives, and reason through the exploit path.
A step-by-step guide to becoming a smart contract auditor: learn the foundations, practice real exploits, build proof of skill, and move toward paid audit work.
Most EVM auditors underestimate Starknet for the wrong reasons. This guide breaks down the Cairo and Starknet security model, the bugs that matter in real audits, the tooling that helps, and the fastest path to getting genuinely dangerous in Cairo security.
A practical Move smart contract audit checklist for Aptos teams and auditors: resources, abilities, signer checks, object ownership, capabilities, generic types, upgrades, invariants, and Move Prover targets.
The Drift Protocol hack was not a generic smart contract bug. It appears to have been a staged admin capture that used durable nonces, privileged state changes, and fast fund extraction to drain more than $250 million.
A 2026 benchmark report on smart contract auditor salaries across full-time roles, freelance work, contest earnings, geography, and specialization premiums.
Solve Ethernaut level 1 with Foundry. Take ownership through the receive() function and drain the contract, then see why this bug class still shows up in audits.
Solve Ethernaut level 3 with Foundry. Win ten coin flips in a row by reading the same block hash the contract reads, and learn why on-chain randomness fails.
Solve Ethernaut level 2 with Foundry. A single mistyped character turns the constructor into a public function anyone can call to take ownership.