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Smart contract audits are a critical step in deploying secure protocols, yet many teams repeat the same costly mistakes. We've seen projects lose sign...
A smart contract audit is not a magic stamp of safety. It is a snapshot of code quality at a point in time, and the real value comes from understandin...
Every liquidity drain we've analyzed at Upstate shares a pattern: the exploit didn't target the obvious vulnerability. It slipped through a gap the au...
When a DeFi protocol loses millions because of a logic bug, the post-mortem often reveals something uncomfortable: the project had been audited, somet...
Most smart contract teams run an audit and assume they are safe from reentrancy. They slap a ReentrancyGuard on the main withdraw function, follow the...