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What Is a Smart Contract Security Audit?
A smart contract security audit provides a detailed analysis of a project's smart contracts. These are important to safeguard funds invested through them. As all transactions on the blockchain are final, funds cannot be retrieved should they be stolen. Typically, auditors will examine the code of smart contracts, produce a report, and provide it to the project for them to work with. A final report is then released, detailing any outstanding errors and the work already done to address performance or security issues.
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Introduction
What is a smart contract audit?
Why do we need smart contract audits?
How do smart contract audits work?
Smart contract audit methods
What is an audit report?
Where can I get a smart contract audit?
How much does a smart contract audit cost?
Closing thoughts
What Is a Smart Contract Security Audit?
About Lesson
A smart contract security audit examines and comments on a project’s smart contract code. Typically, these contracts are written in Solidity programming language and provided via GitHub. Security audits are particularly valuable for DeFi projects that expect to handle blockchain transactions worth millions of dollars or a huge amount of players. The audits usually follow a four-step process:

1. Smart contracts are provided to the audit team for initial analysis.

2. The audit team presents their findings to the project for them to act upon.

3. The project team makes changes based on the issues found.

4. The audit team releases their final report, considering any new changes or outstanding errors.

For many crypto users, smart contract audits are essential when investing in new DeFi projects. It’s become a standard for projects that want to be taken seriously. Certain audit providers are also seen as industry leaders, making their audits more valuable in investors’ eyes.

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