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SecuritySmart ContractsApril 1, 2026

The Smart Contract Audit Checklist: 12 Things Every Protocol Needs to Verify

Before a full audit, every protocol should verify core invariants: accounting conservation, role boundaries, upgrade authority, oracle assumptions, liquidation math, rounding, external calls, pause/shutdown paths, and fee flows.

Atlas security audits currently focus on turning these checks into repeatable candidate-finding workflows for Cantina/HackenProof-style programs and protocol pre-audit packages.

Future focus: move from broad checklist content to proof-driven modules: each module should produce a specific hypothesis, test scaffold, and report outline.

Where Atlas is focused now

Current focus is security-audit revenue: no/low-deposit bounty targets, DeFi pre-audit scanning, and proof-driven report candidates. Future focus is packaging the repeatable parts into Atlas security skill packs and done-with-you validation.