US teams operate under the most scrutiny in this industry — from investors, from counterparties, from insurers and from regulators — and the audit report is frequently the document that has to satisfy all four. We scope engagements with that in mind.
The US market splits into two very different buyers. On one side, venture-backed protocol teams shipping fast, where the audit is a launch gate and the constraint is calendar time. On the other, institutions — banks, asset managers, fintechs, custodians and tokenization platforms — where the audit is one input into a formal risk process and the constraint is evidence quality. We work with both, and we scope them differently rather than pretending they want the same document.
What the US market asks for that others do not, consistently, is defensibility. Not just "did you find bugs" but "who tested, against what scope, with what methodology, and how do we know the fixes worked". Diligence questionnaires from US funds, security reviews from US enterprise customers and requests from insurers all converge on the same handful of questions, and a report structured to answer them upfront saves months of back-and-forth.
We work US hours for US clients. Kick-off, weekly status and the findings debrief run in your time zone; critical findings are escalated the same day they are found; and the engagement lead is a person you can reach rather than an account manager relaying to a team you never meet.
Regulatory references describe the general shape of a regime and are not legal advice. Requirements change; confirm your obligations with your own counsel and supervisor.
We fix a commit hash, agree the in-scope contracts and read your architecture docs, then build a threat model: who the actors are, what the trust boundaries are, and which invariants must never break. Nothing is reviewed against assumptions we have not written down.
Line-by-line review by at least two auditors working independently, focused on authorisation, accounting, upgrade paths, external integrations and the gap between what the code does and what the documentation claims it does. Most critical findings come from this phase, not from tooling.
Static analysers appropriate to the language, plus property-based fuzzing and invariant testing to push the system into states no unit test covers. Tooling is used to widen coverage, never to replace the manual pass.
Candidate findings are proven on a forked network with a working proof of concept. We report what an attacker can actually do and what it costs them, not a theoretical severity label.
Every finding gets a severity rating, reproduction steps, the affected code, the impact in concrete terms and a specific remediation. You get a draft for discussion before anything is finalised.
We re-test every remediation against the original proof of concept and check that the fix has not opened a new path. The final report is yours to publish.
Yes. A significant share of our work is with US protocols, fintechs and institutions, run on US hours with US-hours support and USD contracting.
That is what it is built for: documented scope and methodology, rated findings with proofs of concept, remediation verification and a summary a non-engineer can act on. Tell us who will read it and we will structure it for them.
Yes. We scope the engagement so the deliverable serves as your penetration testing evidence and map findings to SOC 2 criteria where that programme is in flight.
Fixed quote within 24 hours of seeing the repository, and typical start within one to two weeks. If you are working to a launch date, tell us the date first and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable.
Yes — investor-commissioned technical reviews of protocols and counterparties, delivered as an investment-committee memo. See our institutional investors page.
A repository or contract address, a commit hash to freeze the scope, whatever architecture or spec documentation exists, and a point of contact who can answer design questions. If documentation is thin we will write our understanding of the system back to you and ask you to confirm it — that step alone catches design-level bugs.
A single token contract is 24–48 hours. A typical dApp or mid-sized protocol runs one to two weeks. Large DeFi systems, L2s, bridges and ZK circuits are scoped per project after we have seen the code. We will give you a fixed timeline with the quote, not an estimate that moves.
Send the repository and a commit hash through the contact form, message @bugtester25 on Telegram, or book a 30-minute scoping call. 200+ protocols audited · $4B+ secured · 0 hacks post-audit. Prefer email? info@safeedges.in.