Security is an engineering discipline. See how Kann Audits approaches scope, manual review, reporting, and fix verification across onchain systems.
Security Is Not Optional
Smart contracts and protocol infrastructure can control valuable assets and sensitive operations. A flaw in access control, accounting, state transitions, or integration logic can therefore have consequences far beyond an isolated software bug.
A focused security review helps a team challenge assumptions before deployment, document known risks, and make informed decisions about remediation. It does not promise perfect security, but it can materially improve a protocol's readiness for launch.
Security Work Should Produce Verifiable Evidence
Trust is stronger when users and integrators can inspect what was reviewed. A useful audit report identifies the code and commit in scope, explains the methodology, classifies findings, records their status, and describes recommended remediation.
Kann Audits publishes completed reports when disclosure terms allow. Those reports provide more meaningful evidence than unsupported marketing claims because readers can examine the scope and findings for themselves.
Human Review, Supported by Automation
Automated and AI-assisted tools can help triage a codebase, surface suspicious patterns, and make repetitive checks easier to rerun. Their output is a starting point for investigation, not proof that a vulnerability exists or that a system is safe.
Kann's AI-assisted tooling is in Alpha and is positioned as a complement to manual review. Security researchers still need to understand protocol intent, trace interactions across components, test assumptions, and validate every material finding.
What Kann Audits Reviews
Different systems require different review strategies. Kann Audits works across contract code, zero-knowledge systems, and the off-chain components that support protocol operation.
- Smart contract reviews for Solidity, Rust, Move, and Go codebases.
- Zero-knowledge circuit and proof-system reviews, including constraints and verification logic.
- Infrastructure reviews covering components such as APIs, backend services, nodes, oracles, and bridges.
- Alpha AI-assisted scanning used as an additional engineering signal, not a security guarantee.
What an Audit Engagement Includes
A productive engagement begins with a clear scope and a fixed code revision. Auditors then review the implementation while maintaining a direct line of communication with the development team so design intent and edge cases can be clarified quickly.
Findings are documented with severity, impact, and practical remediation guidance. After the team applies fixes, a follow-up review checks the relevant changes and records the resulting status in the final report.
- Scope definition and codebase orientation.
- Manual review supported by appropriate analysis tools.
- Clear findings and remediation guidance.
- Fix verification and a final report suitable for approved publication.
Build Security Into the Delivery Lifecycle
An audit is a point-in-time assessment of a defined scope. Material code changes, new integrations, governance updates, and deployment configuration can introduce new risk after a report is delivered.
The strongest teams treat external review as one layer in a broader program that also includes internal testing, careful change management, monitoring, and a clear process for responding to vulnerabilities.