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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
With vast amounts of value transacted through or locked in smart contracts, they become attractive targets for malicious attacks from hackers. Minor coding errors can lead to huge sums of money being stolen. For example, the DAO hack on the Ethereum blockchain took roughly 60 million dollars worth of ETH and even led to a hard fork of the Ethereum network.

Since blockchain transactions are irreversible, making sure that a project’s code is secure is essential. Blockchain technology’s highly secure nature makes it difficult to retrieve funds and resolve issues after the fact, so it’s better to prevent vulnerabilities at all costs.

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