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How it works

Roles

Warden

Wardens protect the web3 ecosystem from threats by auditing code.

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Judge

Judges decide the severity, validity, and quality of findings and rate the performance of wardens.

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Project

Sponsors create prize pools to attract wardens to audit their projects.

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Scout

Scouts focus on scoping and pre-audit intel.

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Lookout

Lookouts review and organize submissions to Code4rena’s audits.

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Team Captain

Lookouts review and organize submissions to Code4rena’s audits.

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Audit Types

Open

This is the standard competitive audit format on Code4rena where everyone is invited to participate and all information is open and public.

Learn more about open competitions

Private

This type of audit is restricted to Wardens who have met the conditions of the Code4rena Certified Contributor program, which includes a Non-Disclosure Agreement. With customizations available for your privacy needs, Code4rena can offer you an audit that is as stealthy as you’d like.

Learn more about Private audits

Invitational

Sponsors get the opportunity to work with top Wardens from the Code4rena community in a format that best suits their needs. When an Invitational audit is announced, a limited number of the highest-ranking Wardens who RSVP within a 48-hour window can participate in the audit.

Learn more about Invitational audits

Mitigation review

Once new code is ready for review after a Code4rena audit, the highest-performing Wardens who found the initial vulnerabilities are invited to participate in a Mitigation review. Insertions, deletions and changes are considered in scope, with these Wardens doing another pass to confirm these amendments and suitable and/or find any newly introduced vulnerabilities.

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Bot Races

Bot Races make AI and automated tools part of the competitive audit. Bots are registered and used to submit findings that can be automatically detected in a project's code, with the winning report serving as a resource for all auditors and forming the basis for known issues for the audit.

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Test Coverage

Code4rena Test Coverage empowers projects to meet all of their priorities without compromise, by providing projects with surge capacity for their engineering teams pre-launch. Ship quality code that has been thoroughly tested by our community of security-minded experts, at an accelerated rate.

Learn more about Test Coverage