{"id":14,"date":"2026-08-24T04:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoinfrastructure.io\/?p=14"},"modified":"2026-08-24T04:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:21:11","slug":"what-a-smart-contract-audit-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoinfrastructure.io\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"What a Smart Contract Audit Actually Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAudited\u201d has become a marketing word, but a real smart-contract audit is a structured security review with clear scope and limits. Understanding what one does \u2014 and does not \u2014 cover protects you whether you are commissioning an audit or evaluating a protocol that claims to have one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"takeaways\">\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An audit reviews specific code at a specific commit \u2014 not the whole project forever.<\/li>\n<li>Look for methodology, severity ratings and a resolution log, not just a logo.<\/li>\n<li>No audit guarantees safety; it reduces, not eliminates, risk.<\/li>\n<li>Re-audits matter after any material code change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Scope<\/h2>\n<p>A good report names the exact files and commit hash reviewed, the time spent, and the techniques used \u2014 manual review, static analysis, and sometimes formal verification or fuzzing.<\/p>\n<h2>Findings and severity<\/h2>\n<p>Issues are graded (critical, high, medium, low, informational). What matters most is whether critical and high findings were fixed and re-checked \u2014 a resolution log tells you.<\/p>\n<h2>What it cannot promise<\/h2>\n<p>Audits cover the code in scope at a moment in time. They do not cover later changes, economic\/design exploits outside scope, key management, or governance risk.<\/p>\n<h2>Reading a report as a user<\/h2>\n<p>Check the date, the commit, whether the deployed contract matches what was audited, and whether high-severity issues were resolved. A logo with no report behind it is not evidence of anything.<\/p>\n<p>Treat an audit as one input among several \u2014 not a guarantee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An audit is not a stamp of \u201csafe.\u201d Here is what a credible smart-contract audit examines, what it cannot promise, and how to read a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smart-contract-audit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoinfrastructure.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoinfrastructure.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoinfrastructure.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoinfrastructure.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoinfrastructure.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoinfrastructure.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoinfrastructure.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoinfrastructure.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoinfrastructure.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}