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Assurance is not an audit: what an automated smart contract verdict can and cannot claim
Automated analysis and manual audit answer different questions. Treating one as the other is how a passing result becomes a false sense of safety.
Read the perspectiveReproducible verdicts: why determinism matters for on-chain assurance
An assurance result a client cannot independently reproduce is an opinion. Determinism turns it into evidence.
Read the perspectiveWhat to ask an on-chain assurance vendor
Third-party risk review decides whether an assurance result can be relied on. The questions matter more than the marketing.
Read the perspectiveDefending against oracle and economic manipulation
The exploits that drain the most value are economic, not syntactic. Defending against them takes more than a scanner.
Read the perspectiveThe operations case for continuous contract assurance
A contract audited once is a contract assured at one moment. Systems that change need assurance that continues.
Read the perspectiveAlerts are not controls
Detection is necessary. Accountable response is what protects an asset.
Read the perspectiveBank-led on-chain money and the operator question
In June 2026 a consortium of major banks announced a bank-led initiative for tokenized deposits operated by a clearing house, a signal that institutions prefer operator-run infrastructure.
Read the perspective2025 in review: the year digital assets became an operations problem
Regulation arrived, losses concentrated, and banks moved to public networks. The common thread was accountability for operations.
Read the perspectiveTokenized deposits move to public networks: what changes for bank operations
In November 2025 a major US bank began settling a deposit token on a public Layer 2 network, signaling that public blockchains are now part of bank infrastructure.
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