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Olympix outperforms Slither with 3 true positives vs. 0, and 23 false positives vs. 150 in EigenLayer analysis. See why institutions choose Olympix for Web3 security.
We're excited to announce a significant milestone in decentralized finance security: Olympix has been selected as a provider of the Uniswap Foundation Security Fund (UFSF), managed by Areta.
Learn why 90% of exploited smart contracts were audited and discover essential Web3 security best practices to build safer, more resilient DeFi protocols.
Most Web3 founders wish they'd prioritized smart contract security from day one. Learn why "security later" costs millions and how proactive security tools prevent exploits before deployment.
Learn how to prevent reentrancy attacks in smart contracts. Proven methods, code examples, and tools to protect your DeFi protocol from exploits.
Discover how to improve smart contract security during development with static analysis, automated testing, mutation testing, and fuzzing. Learn why 90% of exploited contracts passed audits and how to shift security left in your development workflow.
Learn how continuous invariant testing in CI/CD pipelines transforms smart contract security from one-time audits to continuous protection, preventing exploits before deployment.
Learn how to audit smart contract code effectively with this pre-deployment checklist. Reduce audit costs by 50% and catch vulnerabilities before review.
Learn why smart contract auditing should start with internal testing. Discover cost-effective security strategies before engaging external auditors.
Learn how to build audit checklists that mirror real auditor workflows. Discover risk-based strategies to improve compliance and reduce audit findings.
Learn how to get maximum value from your blockchain audit firm. Discover pre-audit testing strategies that reduce findings by 80% and cut audit costs by 50%.
Discover which smart contract security tools actually find real bugs before audit. Learn why 90% of exploited contracts were audited and how proactive testing with static analysis, automated unit testing, and mutation testing can reduce audit findings by 30-80%.
As crypto reaches $4T and institutions move on-chain, traditional audits fail to prevent exploits. Olympix's formal methods caught 71% of 2025's hacks pre-deployment.
Learn how to transform from security champion dependency to organization-wide security culture. Discover strategies, tools, and practical steps to scale security expectations across all teams.
Discover the most common Solidity pitfalls that lead to smart contract exploits. Learn how reentrancy, access control, and oracle vulnerabilities cause billions in losses - and how proactive security tools can prevent them.
Discover how Olympix is revolutionizing blockchain security with AI-powered developer tools. Learn why 90% of exploited smart contracts were audited and how automated security is changing Web3.
Discover essential web3 security best practices for 2025. Learn how to prevent smart contract exploits, reduce audit costs, and protect your protocol.
Learn how integrating proactive security analysis into smart contract development workflows reduces vulnerabilities by 84%, cuts audit costs, and prevents exploits before deployment.
Learn the 8 most critical smart contract vulnerabilities costing millions in DeFi exploits. Discover how proactive security reduces risk by 84% during development.
Learn how to build secure smart contracts and prevent DeFi exploits. Discover shift-left security practices, vulnerability prevention, and proactive testing tools.
Sam from Guardrail and Channi from Olympix discuss the evolution of web3 security, from design partnerships to AI integration. Learn why layered security beats single solutions, how composability creates new risks, and what founders should prioritize in 2026.Retry
Billions lost in 2024 from audited smart contracts. Discover why traditional Web3 security approaches fail and what's changing in 2025.
Discover why traditional fuzzing fails for DeFi protocols and how economic invariant fuzzing tests system behavior to catch billion-dollar exploits before they happen.
Reactive security approaches cost DeFi projects millions in exploits, audit cycles, and lost trust. Learn why proactive smart contract security delivers better ROI.
Role drift silently undermines Web3 security as organizations evolve but on-chain permissions stay static. Learn how to detect and prevent this hidden risk.
Smart contract audits have become the gold standard for Web3 security, but are they enough to protect your protocol? Recent high-profile hacks suggest otherwise. Even projects with multiple external audits continue to fall victim to sophisticated attacks, raising critical questions about audit effectiveness and comprehensive security strategies.
With over $17 billion drained from DeFi protocols to date and losses exceeding $5 million every two weeks, it's clear that traditional Web3 security approaches are fundamentally broken.
Smart contract audits catch what you give them. If your codebase is bloated, disorganized, or full of irrelevant logic, your audit report will reflect it. Expect missed vulnerabilities, vague findings, and inflated timelines that can cost your project weeks of delays and thousands in additional fees.
Stop relying on failed audit-first security models. Learn how leading development teams implement proactive smart contract security with static analysis, mutation testing, and continuous validation for bulletproof DeFi protocols.
Learn how mutation-based chaos testing detects silent failures in upgradeable smart contracts that traditional testing and audits miss. Prevent costly bugs before deployment.
Learn how to identify, measure, and systematically manage security debt in Web3 protocols. A practical framework for moving from audit-dependent to continuous security validation, with tactical steps teams can implement immediately to prevent exploits.
Discover how pre-audit security tooling prevents crypto exploits before they happen. Learn why waiting for audits costs billions and how proactive security tools reduce vulnerabilities by 84% while cutting audit costs.
Learn how to prevent smart contract exploits with proven 2025 security strategies. Discover static analysis, mutation testing, and continuous security pipelines that stop vulnerabilities before deployment. Protect your DeFi protocol from billions in preventable annual losses.
Why LLM audit agents create false security in smart contract testing. Learn how Olympix uses engineering-grade analysis with complete code path coverage instead of probabilistic pattern matching.
Learn advanced techniques for mapping EVM bytecode vulnerabilities back to precise source code locations. Complete implementation guide covering AST analysis, source map enhancement, data flow tracking, and production-grade mapping systems for smart contract security tools.
Discover why audit coverage gaps cause $1B+ in Web3 losses annually. Complete guide to identifying, preventing, and closing audit coverage gaps with proven tools and strategies for Web3 developers.
Learn to identify and fix smart contract security debt before it costs millions. Proven strategies from DAO and bZx hacks, plus tools to protect your DeFi protocol.
Discover why Olympix is the leading Slither alternative in 2025. Get 5x better vulnerability detection (75% vs 15% accuracy), real-time IDE integration, and comprehensive DeFi security coverage. See why teams are switching from Slither to Olympix for modern Web3 protection.
Smart contract audit limitations exposed: Why $1B+ was stolen from audited DeFi protocols in 2024. Learn the gaps audits miss and how to build secure code.
Smart contract audits have become the gold standard for blockchain security, but they're creating a dangerous illusion of safety. Here's why your audit isn't enough, and what you need to build instead.
Most smart contract exploits are merged, not discovered. This article breaks down how developers can prevent 85% of vulnerabilities before audit using mutation testing, static analysis, and CI-enforced threat ownership.
Learn how proactive smart contract security prevents exploits before deployment. Discover tools and techniques that saved teams millions in potential losses with real case studies.
Implementing proper web3 security best practices requires treating security as a continuous development methodology, not a one-time audit milestone. Every line of code, every architectural decision, every integration point must be evaluated through a security lens from conception to deployment and beyond.
Learn writing secure smart contracts with adversarial-first development. Discover threat modeling, mutation testing, and tools like Olympix to prevent DeFi exploits. Complete guide for developers.
Learn why smart contract vulnerabilities cause billions in losses despite audits. Discover proven methods to detect and prevent DeFi exploits.
Learn how 60% of DeFi exploits stem from broken assumptions, not bugs. Master invariant design to build mathematically secure smart contracts that survive real-world attacks.
Learn everything about DeFi decentralized exchanges (DEXs) - how they work, risks vs centralized exchanges, security considerations, and what to know before trading.
Learn why decentralized app security is broken and discover proven strategies to build secure DApps. Expert insights on smart contract security, testing, and prevention.
After a sophisticated exploit, Hedgey Finance rebuilt their security with a comprehensive five-layer defense architecture featuring AI-powered analysis, adversarial fuzzing, and continuous monitoring. Their proactive approach demonstrates how superior security becomes a competitive advantage and sets the new standard for enterprise Web3 protection.
DeFi DAOs control billions in crypto assets through automated governance, but hidden security risks make them prime targets for exploitation. This guide reveals how governance attacks succeed and what developers need to know to build secure DAO systems.
A $44M exploit revealed how function interactions can slip past even top-tier audits. This postmortem shows why analyzing behavior over time is critical to smart contract security.
Security doesn't start at audit, it starts at the pull request. This article breaks down how PR-scoped risk summaries and mutation testing turn every commit into a security checkpoint, directly in your Git workflow.
Web3 coding languages aren’t just about syntax; they’re also about security decisions. This guide breaks down how Solidity, Rust, Move, and Cairo shape your threat model, tooling limits, and exploit exposure. Build smarter by understanding what your language makes easy to get wrong.
Smart contract security best practices won’t protect you. This piece breaks down how real exploits bypass the checklists and how to build security that actually holds up using intent-aware analysis, mutation testing, and state-bound validation. Stop following rules. Start enforcing invariants.
Code coverage tells you what ran. Mutation testing tells you what broke. In this piece, we break down why 100% test coverage means nothing if your tests don’t catch logic failures and how mutation testing exposes the blind spots that lead to real exploits.
Most smart contract security tools look secure but don’t prevent exploits. This guide breaks down what real security tooling should do, why audits aren’t enough, and how Olympix gives developers a full-stack pipeline to catch what others miss. If you’re still relying on scanners and checklists, you’re already behind.
Most teams treat audits like insurance. In reality, they’re just a snapshot. This beginner’s guide breaks down what a Web3 security audit really covers, why so many fail, and how to build real security into your development lifecycle. If you’re launching smart contracts, read this before you trust an audit to protect you.
DeFi aggregators route trades across DEXes to optimize execution, but they also introduce new attack surfaces and trust assumptions. This guide breaks down how they work, where they fail, and what developers must do to integrate them securely.
A practical guide for newcomers to Web3 development. Learn how to set up your environment, write and test your first smart contract, deploy to a testnet, and build a simple dApp interface. Perfect for developers who want to go from zero to on-chain fast, without fluff.
Codify security where exploits begin—Git. This article breaks down how to embed static analysis, mutation testing, and threat modeling directly into your version control workflows. No fluff, just tactical enforcement.
Web3 coding challenges should train for failure, not cleverness. This post shows how to redesign them around real exploits, threat models, and adversarial thinking to actually prepare developers for mainnet.
Most blockchain development frameworks optimize for speed, not security. This post breaks down how popular tools miss critical bugs, why tests pass but code fails, and what builders need to demand from their stack to ship safely.
A head-to-head benchmark of Olympix vs. Slither on the EigenLayer codebase. See how enterprise-grade static analysis stacks up against open-source tools in high-stakes DeFi security.
Most proof markets sacrifice privacy to scale. Fermah encrypts the pipeline with Confidential Proof Dispatch. =Nil; makes external data trustless. Together, they’re building the secure ZK stack DeFi needs next.
Deploying to mainnet means entering a war zone. Most guides on how to learn Web3 coding won’t get you past the front lines. This one does. If you want to think like an attacker, code like a defender, and build contracts that don’t get drained, read this before you write another line.
A technical breakdown of what it actually takes to become a Web3 developer. This guide outlines a real Web3 coding roadmap—covering adversarial thinking, EVM mastery, protocol design, testing tools, and security practices every serious builder needs.
Smart contracts, the backbone of Web3 applications, are vulnerable to exploits due to their unchangeable nature. This article examines common vulnerabilities and how to enhance smart contract security.
Discover how Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is revolutionizing finance by replacing intermediaries with blockchain technology. From its Bitcoin roots to today’s cutting-edge trends like tokenized assets and AI integration, this guide explores DeFi’s evolution, key players, challenges, and expert predictions shaping its future. Dive in to grasp the full potential of DeFi!
Explore the essentials of Web3 cybersecurity, from understanding smart contract vulnerabilities to proactive security measures that protect your assets in the decentralized world—unlock the future of secure Web3 today!
Remitano suffered a $2.7M loss due to a private key compromise.
Stake suffered a $41M loss due to a private key compromise.
JPEG’d lost $11.4M due to reentrancy vulnerability.
BNO suffered a $500K loss due to a faulty reward mechanism.
Palmswap lost $900K due to price manipulation.
Themis Protocol lost $370K due to price oracle manipulation
Midas Capital got exploited due to a rounding issue.
Sturdy Finance lost $770K due to read-only reentrancy vulnerability.
El Dorado Exchange’s Oracle contract got exploited.
Smart contract audits are essential, but not enough. This article breaks down what audits actually do, where they fall short, and how serious teams can use them effectively. If you're building in Web3, treat audits as a checkpoint, not a finish line.
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