In Today’s DeFi landscape, traditional audits are not enough to avoid a devastating exploit, with over $500,000,000 being hacked from audited projects in the last year to prove it.
The source of every one of these exploits is human error which could have been avoided with the correct systems in place.
With this in mind, it is crucial for teams building in DeFi to be mindful of the systems they’re relying on, and manage their human error risk accordingly.
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As much as possible, human error must be:
What are you doing to track, manage, and remove human error risk to avoid hacks?
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At Guardian we use a two team cross-checking audit model to limit human error in manual analysis.
But more importantly, we implement invariant testing (smart contract fuzzing) as a key security layer to give dependable vulnerability coverage which is not prone to the same human error as manual analysis.
You can implement the same invariant testing yourself, in your own development pipeline, to remove human error and systematically prevent devastating exploits.
