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Smart Contract Security

Formal Verification

Smart Contract Security

Operational Security
The Compound Finance website was manipulated to redirect to a phishing site hosting a lookalike service. Our industry is learning daily that while the on-chain threat persists, the off-chain threat is formidable and growing.

Product & Company
This partnership reflects a shared commitment to building a secure, resilient, and developer-first ecosystem, as well as ensuring that Sui-based protocols can scale with confidence as adoption grows.

Product & Company
We have released Certora Prover Version 8.8.0 that includes new features.

Blockchain Infrastructure
Certora has received a research grant from the Ethereum Foundation as part of the zkEVM Formal Verification Project to help secure critical performance optimizations in zkEVM implementations. The work focuses on formally verifying autoprecompiles—automatically generated, reusable ZK circuit components developed by Powdr Labs that significantly improve zkEVM performance.

Product & Company
Last year our security footprint expanded across new chains, languages, and infrastructure layers. Our security research team quadrupled in size. And our work drove home the importance of long-term security partnerships. The numbers here tell that story: not just what we secured in 2025, but the momentum that’s carrying Certora and DeFi as a whole into 2026.

Product & Company
We have released Certora Prover Version 8.6.3 that includes an important enhancement.

Product & Company
Through this initiative, Certora directly contributes to Solana’s decentralization, resilience, and operational security by operating a high-assurance validator built to rigorous security and reliability standards.

Product & Company
We have released Certora Prover Version 8.5.1 that includes new features.

AI & Automation
The new Certora AI Composer is an open-source AI coding platform that composes artificial intelligence with formal verification to make smart contract development faster and safer.

Product & Company

Operational Security
The AWS outage and recent security breaches reveal how “decentralized” systems depend on centralized providers. This piece examines how advanced persistent threats could exploit that weakness, and what it means for Ethereum’s trillion-dollar vision.

Product & Company