Why teams pick ChainAudit
Smart contract vulnerabilities have a different consequence profile than application vulnerabilities. A web application bug can be patched. A deployed smart contract often cannot. An exploitable vulnerability in a contract managing significant value is an existential risk to the protocol.
The standard industry response — an external security audit before mainnet deployment — is necessary but not sufficient. Audits happen once, at a point in time, on a specific version of the code. Every subsequent code change is unaudited until the next engagement. ChainAudit provides continuous automated scanning that gives development teams a security baseline on every code change, so the external audit finds fewer issues and focuses on the logic-level vulnerabilities that automated tools miss.
The diff scanner addresses the specific pattern of post-audit code changes. A common pre-launch incident is: an external audit finds issues, developers fix them, and in fixing them introduce new issues that were not in scope for the original audit. ChainAudit scans only the changed code in each pull request, which makes it practical to run on every commit without the cost of a full analysis.
Who it is for
ChainAudit is used by smart contract development teams preparing for external audits, DeFi protocols that deploy contract upgrades frequently, Web3 companies with internal security teams reviewing contract changes, and any development team that wants a security gate on their contract deployment pipeline.