ResearchZero - Blockchain security and smart contract audits for financial institutions building on-chain
Institutional smart contract audits, blockchain security reviews, and adversarial protocol research for banks, fintechs, asset managers, custodians, and financial platforms bringing real value on-chain.
Security for Finance
Moving On-Chain
Every institutional on-chain financial product is only as strong as its contracts, assumptions, and controls. We find the bugs, broken invariants, custody risks, and attack paths that can move real capital.
Code
Manual smart contract review across Solidity, Vyper, Rust, and Move with attention to access control, state transitions, custody permissions, accounting, and upgrade risk.
Logic
Business logic and economic security analysis for vaults, markets, bridges, staking, tokenized assets, real-world asset systems, and institutional DeFi integrations.
Attack
Adversarial testing with proof-of-concept exploits, exploitability reasoning, severity context, and remediation paths your engineers can ship.
Mission
ResearchZero exists to secure the smart contracts, tokenized assets, custody flows, and blockchain protocols that will carry the next generation of financial markets.
Smart Contract Security Services
Elite audits and adversarial security research for smart contracts, DeFi systems, tokenized assets, stablecoins, bridges, wallets, custody systems, and blockchain infrastructure.
Manual security review for contracts that control institutional value
Senior researchers examine the code paths where funds move, tokenized assets settle, accounting changes, privileges execute, and protocol assumptions can fail.
Economic attack surface review for programmable financial markets
Flash loan vectors, oracle manipulation, liquidation edge cases, governance attacks, MEV exposure, collateral stress, settlement timing, and cross-protocol composability risk.
Learn moreNative Solana program and high-performance protocol security
Solana programs, Anchor frameworks, and Rust infrastructure reviewed for account validation flaws, PDA misuse, privilege escalation, CPI risk, and unsafe state assumptions.
Learn moreSecurity review for bridges, nodes, wallets, validators, and custody systems
Deep review of blockchain infrastructure, signing flows, validator operations, bridge assumptions, wallet policies, monitoring surfaces, and production controls around high-value protocols.
Learn moreSecurity services for financial institutions building on-chain
ResearchZero helps banks, asset managers, fintech companies, custodians, payment networks, exchanges, and capital markets teams launch blockchain systems with rigorous smart contract security and protocol risk review.
Our work focuses on the controls that matter when regulated financial products move on-chain: token issuance, redemption flows, custody authorization, settlement logic, collateral accounting, oracle dependencies, privileged operations, emergency controls, and upgrade governance.
Whether your team is launching tokenized deposits, real-world assets, stablecoins, institutional DeFi access, digital asset custody, or blockchain settlement infrastructure, we review the code and the financial assumptions behind it before production capital is exposed.
- Tokenized Assets & RWAsSecurity review for tokenized funds, real-world assets, stablecoins, collateral vaults, redemption mechanics, and investor permissioning.
- Digital Asset CustodyReview of wallet controls, signing flows, access policies, multisig assumptions, smart account logic, and privileged operational paths.
- On-Chain SettlementAssessment of settlement contracts, payment flows, bridge dependencies, finality assumptions, liquidity controls, and transaction failure modes.
- Institutional DeFiAdversarial review of market logic, oracle risk, liquidations, governance controls, MEV exposure, cross-protocol integrations, and economic attack surfaces.
The Audit Lifecycle
A rigorous cybersecurity methodology for contracts and protocols where a single bug can become a market-moving exploit, custody failure, or settlement incident.
Scope
We map contracts, privileged roles, custody permissions, assets at risk, upgrade paths, oracle dependencies, bridges, integrations, and the financial flows the system protects.
Break
Senior researchers review code manually, model invariants, probe business logic, write exploit hypotheses, and test the paths an attacker would take.
Report
Findings are delivered with severity, impact, root cause, proof-of-concept detail, exploitability notes, and clear remediation guidance.
Fix
We work directly with your engineers to close issues, reduce privileged risk, improve invariants, and validate remediations before deployment.
Verify
Final re-review confirms patches, residual risk, upgrade controls, monitoring assumptions, custody controls, and readiness for production capital.
Blockchain security questions for financial institutions
Answers for financial firms evaluating smart contract audits, tokenized asset security, custody controls, and on-chain settlement risk.
What blockchain security services does ResearchZero provide?
ResearchZero provides smart contract audits, tokenized asset security reviews, DeFi protocol security, custody and wallet security review, bridge and infrastructure audits, and adversarial research for financial firms building on-chain systems.
Who should request an institutional smart contract audit?
Banks, fintech companies, custodians, asset managers, payment companies, stablecoin issuers, RWA platforms, exchanges, and DeFi protocols should request an audit before launching contracts that hold assets, settle transactions, mint tokens, manage collateral, or control privileged operations.
What risks are reviewed in an on-chain finance assessment?
Reviews cover access control, accounting invariants, upgrade authority, oracle assumptions, custody permissions, bridge trust assumptions, governance actions, liquidation logic, settlement edge cases, MEV exposure, and exploit paths that can affect real capital.
Secure your
on-chain protocol
Talk to ResearchZero about your smart contracts, institutional DeFi protocol, tokenized asset system, stablecoin, bridge, custody wallet, or blockchain settlement infrastructure.
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