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Compare seven realistic security options when a full smart contract audit is out of budget, from free tools and AI review to senior audit sessions.
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When Every Check Passes but a Protocol Is Underbacked
A comparative study of transaction-level backing failures, from YadaCoin and public audit findings to the Opyn exploit and MISO disclosure.
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Floor Is Not Truncation: The Uniswap V3 TickBitmap
1.7 million possible ticks and the swap loop cannot scan them. One storage read, a mask, a bit scan. And one division that behaves differently for negative ticks.
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Fee Growth Outside: The Uniswap V3 Trick Nobody Explains Well
How much did a position earn while in range, over months of crossings, with no loops and one checkpoint? V3 answers in two subtractions by storing the wrong side on purpose.
ReadCategory / smart-contracts
See all in Smart Contract Security Smart Contract Security.
Hyperliquid Security Checklist for Builders: HyperBFT, HyperCore, HyperEVM Risks Before Mainnet
A builder focused Hyperliquid security checklist covering HyperBFT assumptions, HyperCore integrations, HyperEVM deployment risks, and pre audit launch gates before mainnet.
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Hyperliquid Security Checklist for Builders: HyperBFT, HyperCore, HyperEVM
A builder focused Hyperliquid security checklist covering HyperBFT, HyperCore, HyperEVM, order flow, liquidation, oracle, bridge, and pre audit risks before launch.
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EIP-7702 wallet security: what auditors check after Pectra
EIP-7702 lets EOAs become smart contracts with one signature. Here are the 4 attack surfaces — phishing, delegate bugs, replay, ERC-4337 — auditors now check.
ReadCategory / protocol-deep-dives
See all in DeFi Protocol Analysis DeFi Protocol Analysis.
Floor Is Not Truncation: The Uniswap V3 TickBitmap
1.7 million possible ticks and the swap loop cannot scan them. One storage read, a mask, a bit scan. And one division that behaves differently for negative ticks.
ReadFee Growth Outside: The Uniswap V3 Trick Nobody Explains Well
How much did a position earn while in range, over months of crossings, with no loops and one checkpoint? V3 answers in two subtractions by storing the wrong side on purpose.
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Who Eats the Wei: Rounding as a Security Boundary in Uniswap V3
Every division in SqrtPriceMath decides where the lost fraction goes. V3 answers the same way every time: the pool wins. Get one flag backwards and you have built a faucet.
ReadCategory / audit-ops
See all in Audit Operations Audit Operations.
Can’t Afford a Smart Contract Audit? 7 Options | Zealynx
Compare seven realistic security options when a full smart contract audit is out of budget, from free tools and AI review to senior audit sessions.
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What Happens During a Smart Contract Audit: Week-by-Week Process
A senior auditor walks through what actually happens during a smart contract audit, week by week. Pre-audit prep, manual review, findings, fix verification, and final deliverables.
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When to audit a smart contract: The 2026 security timeline
The 2026 security timeline for Web3 protocols: when to audit at design, dev, pre-launch, and post-launch — plus real lead times, audit costs, and launch buffer rules.
ReadCategory / adversarial-security
See all in Adversarial & AI Security Adversarial & AI Security.
When LLMs Sign Transactions: AI-Driven Smart Contract Threat Model
When LLMs can prepare or sign transactions, smart contract risk expands into prompt injection, policy drift, simulation mismatch, and wallet authority abuse.
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Auditing AI Trading Bots: Security Framework
How to audit AI trading bots and onchain agents before prompt injection, wallet misuse, and market-facing automation turn into fund loss.
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Blind Signing: The Bybit $1.5B Lesson in UI Insecurity
Technical analysis of the largest crypto hack ($1.5B). How compromised frontend infrastructure enabled UI injection that turned blind signing into a total drain.
ReadCategory / web3-attack-vectors
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ERC-4626 inflation attack: how it works and how to stop it
The ERC-4626 inflation attack still drains vaults in 2026. See the deposit-donate math, real hacks (Cream, Sonne, Resupply), and the invariants that catch it.
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Signer compromise: why clean audits don't stop key hacks
Most 2026 DeFi losses came from compromised signers, not buggy code. How multisig, timelocks, and MPC contain key compromise — lessons from Drift's $285M hack.
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Flash loan attacks: anatomy of nine-figure DeFi exploits
How flash loans amplify oracle, donation, and reentrancy bugs into $200M+ DeFi exploits — Cetus, Penpie, KyberSwap, UwU Lend case studies plus defenses that hold.
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Web3 Security Communities in 2026: Where Developers, Auditors, and Founders Actually Level Up
Free Discords, CTFs, audit contest platforms, bootcamps, and paid memberships compared. What each one actually gives a web3 developer, aspiring auditor, or protocol founder in 2026, what it costs, and how to choose.
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The Web3 Founder's Survival Guide: Everything No Engineering Curriculum Teaches
Most Web3 founders are technical and ship great code, then watch the protocol die to non-code problems. Tokenomics, fundraising, governance, regulatory, GTM — this is what kills teams.
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OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026: changes and audit guide
The 2026 OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 elevated business logic to #2 and added proxy & upgradeability at #10. Here's what changed and how to audit.
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New to Web3? The Exact 90-Day Path We'd Give a Complete Beginner
How to learn Web3 from scratch: the right order to actually understand blockchains, wallets, DeFi, and scams, in a free 90-day path.
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Introducing Your First 90 Days in Web3: A Free, Guided Path to Actually Understand the Space
A free, interactive Zealynx Academy course that teaches you to understand Web3 for real, crypto, DeFi, wallets, DAOs, scams, security, not memorize jargon.
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Why a Smart Contract Audit Firm Built a Free Beginner Web3 Course
After 30+ audits, we kept seeing failures rooted in missing literacy, not missing code skill. So a security firm built a beginner course. Here's why.
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ERC-4626 inflation attack: how it works and how to stop it
The ERC-4626 inflation attack still drains vaults in 2026. See the deposit-donate math, real hacks (Cream, Sonne, Resupply), and the invariants that catch it.
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Restaking risk: slashing, depegs, and exit queue attacks
Restaking bundles three distinct failure surfaces — slashing and redistribution, LST/LRT depegs, and withdrawal-queue griefing. Here is how each one actually breaks.
ReadNew to Web3? The Exact 90-Day Path We'd Give a Complete Beginner
How to learn Web3 from scratch: the right order to actually understand blockchains, wallets, DeFi, and scams, in a free 90-day path.
ReadIntroducing Your First 90 Days in Web3: A Free, Guided Path to Actually Understand the Space
A free, interactive Zealynx Academy course that teaches you to understand Web3 for real, crypto, DeFi, wallets, DAOs, scams, security, not memorize jargon.
ReadWhy a Smart Contract Audit Firm Built a Free Beginner Web3 Course
After 30+ audits, we kept seeing failures rooted in missing literacy, not missing code skill. So a security firm built a beginner course. Here's why.
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OWASP ASI10 Explained: Rogue Agents and Misalignment
OWASP ASI10 (Rogue Agents) explained: misalignment, reward hacking, deceptive behavior, and how agent autonomy turns policy drift into production impact.
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OWASP ASI08 Explained: Cascading Failures in Agentic Systems
OWASP ASI08 explained: how small AI agent failures cascade across tools, memories, and approval paths into system-wide incidents.
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OWASP ASI07 Explained: Insecure Inter-Agent Communication
OWASP ASI07 (Insecure Inter-Agent Communication) explained: how agents trust each other too much, relay malicious instructions, and amplify prompt injection.
ReadSigner compromise: why clean audits don't stop key hacks
Most 2026 DeFi losses came from compromised signers, not buggy code. How multisig, timelocks, and MPC contain key compromise — lessons from Drift's $285M hack.
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OWASP ASI09 Explained: Human-Agent Trust Exploitation
OWASP ASI09 (Human-Agent Trust Exploitation) explained: how AI agents exploit anthropomorphism, authority bias, and confirmation fatigue to drive harmful approvals.
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OWASP ASI06 Explained: AI Memory & Context Poisoning
OWASP ASI06 (Memory and Context Poisoning) explained: RAG corruption, vector store attacks, persistent context bias. How to defend AI agent memory layers.
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Postmark MCP Supply-Chain Attack: ASI04 in Production
September 2025 Postmark MCP supply-chain attack: an impersonating npm package BCC'd every email to the attacker. A real-world OWASP ASI04 case, fully analysed.
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