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CI/CD for Smart Contracts: Automated Security in Your Development Pipeline
|Odin Scan Team

CI/CD for Smart Contracts: Automated Security in Your Development Pipeline

Audits happen once. Code changes every day. Here is how to build a CI/CD pipeline that catches smart contract vulnerabilities on every PR, before they reach mainnet.

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DeFi Access Control Patterns: A Cross-Chain Checklist
|Odin Scan Team

DeFi Access Control Patterns: A Cross-Chain Checklist

Missing access control is the number one critical finding in smart contract audits across every chain. Here are the patterns for EVM, Solana, and CosmWasm, with the specific mistakes auditors keep finding.

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Smart Contract Upgrade Safety: Proxy Patterns and Their Pitfalls
|Odin Scan Team

Smart Contract Upgrade Safety: Proxy Patterns and Their Pitfalls

Upgradeable contracts let you fix bugs after deployment. They also let you introduce new ones. Here are the proxy patterns, their trade-offs, and the specific mistakes that cause storage corruption, bricked contracts, and stolen funds.

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Smart Contract Testing: What Your Test Suite Is Missing
|Odin Scan Team

Smart Contract Testing: What Your Test Suite Is Missing

Your tests pass. Your contracts still get drained. Here is why: most test suites verify the happy path and skip the exact conditions attackers exploit.

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Pre-Audit Checklist: How to Prepare Your Smart Contracts for a Security Review
|Odin Scan Team

Pre-Audit Checklist: How to Prepare Your Smart Contracts for a Security Review

Auditors spend hours on code that is not ready. That is your money wasted. Here is the checklist that gets your codebase audit-ready before the engagement starts.

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Vibe Coding Smart Contracts: What Could Go Wrong?
|Odin Scan Team

Vibe Coding Smart Contracts: What Could Go Wrong?

AI coding assistants write fast, confident code. Smart contracts hold real money. That combination has a growing track record of going badly wrong.

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