GameFi & Web3 Game Security Audit

GameFi Audit — A GameFi audit reviews Web3 games as economic systems: the contracts holding assets and rewards, the randomness that decides outcomes, the off-chain game server that reports results on-chain, and the economy design that determines whether the game can be farmed to death.

What a gamefi audit covers

Web3 games fail economically more often than they fail cryptographically. The typical loss is not a drained contract but an economy where a bot earns more than it spends — infinite reward loops, breeding or crafting arbitrage, mint conditions that can be automated, or a marketplace fee model that makes wash trading profitable.

We review the contract layer and the economy together, plus the seam almost every Web3 game has: a centralised game server that tells the chain what happened. If that server can be tricked or impersonated, no amount of contract security helps.

Vulnerability classes we look for

Reward and emission exploitation

Loops where output exceeds input, rewards claimable more than once, and progress that can be reset to farm early-game bonuses.

Randomness manipulation

On-chain pseudo-randomness derived from block data, VRF callbacks that can be reverted or re-rolled, and outcomes decided before commitment.

Off-chain game server trust

Signed results with no replay protection, a server key that can mint anything, and no way for a player to prove the server cheated.

Asset minting and supply integrity

Mint conditions automatable at scale, supply caps enforced in one path only, and metadata mutability changing item value after sale.

Marketplace and trading mechanics

Royalty bypass, wash trading profitable under the fee/reward model, and listing races on transfer.

Bot and sybil resistance

Actions requiring no meaningful cost, and airdrop or reward criteria that reward account count rather than engagement.

Cross-game and bridging assumptions

Assets bridged between chains or games with inconsistent supply accounting.

Player fund custody

Custodial in-game balances, withdrawal limits, and what happens to player assets if the studio disappears.

In scope

Not in scope unless agreed

How the engagement runs

  1. Scoping and threat modelling

    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.

  2. Manual review

    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.

  3. Static and dynamic analysis

    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.

  4. Exploit-path simulation

    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.

  5. Reporting

    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.

  6. Fix review and re-test

    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.

What you receive

How we rate severity

SeverityWhat it means
CriticalDirect loss of funds or permanent freezing of assets, exploitable by any actor.
HighLoss of funds or protocol insolvency under realistic conditions, or requiring a privileged actor to misbehave.
MediumBroken protocol behaviour, denial of service, or value leakage that does not directly drain the contract.
LowEdge-case incorrectness with limited impact, or an issue requiring implausible preconditions.
InformationalCode quality, gas efficiency, documentation mismatch and defence-in-depth suggestions.

Pricing

Single token contract: starts from $999, report in 24–48 hours. dApp, GameFi or RWA project: starts from $2,999. DeFi protocol, L2 / rollup, Bridge, ZK circuit, AI agent / MCP: scoped per project after we have seen the code.

GameFi Audit: frequently asked questions

Do you review the game economy or just the contracts?

Both. We model the economy adversarially — what a bot farm earns per dollar spent — because that is how most Web3 games actually die, not through a contract exploit.

How do you handle randomness?

We check the source and the commitment order: whether the outcome is knowable or influenceable before it is committed, and whether a VRF callback can be reverted or retried until the result is favourable.

Our game logic runs off-chain. Can you still audit it?

Yes, and the trust boundary is the priority: how results are signed, whether they can be replayed, what the server key can mint, and what a player can prove if the server misbehaves.

Do you test for bot farming?

Yes. We look for actions with no meaningful cost, reward criteria that scale with account count, and any loop where automated play is net-profitable at the protocol's expense.

What do you need from us to start an audit?

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.

How long does an audit take?

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.

Is a re-test included after we fix the issues?

Yes. Fix review is part of the engagement, not an upsell. We re-run the original proof of concept against your patched code and confirm the fix has not introduced a new path.

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Get a fixed quote in 24 hours

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.