Audit Firms: Or, The Seal of Approval
Secureum Part 6 listed a non-exhaustive list of smart contract security audit firms. I hadn't heard about all of them (it's impossible to cover them all, so 🤷♂️), but here it goes. Just so you know: most of these firms offer more than just audit services!
I visited each website and tried to find out where these firms are located (I didn't invest much time, so no crazy OSINT searches to find out who is behind each company). Most of these operate globally I reckon, because why yes, remote work is sweet 👏.
- ABDK (unclear, founder is from Russian origin, but seems to have a European PhD)
- Arcadia (Dallas, USA)
- Beosin (Chengdu, China)
- Blockchain Consilium (Toronto, Canada)
- BlockSec (unclear, seems China)
- CertiK (HQ in New York, USA)
- ChainSafe (Toronto, Canada)
- ChainSecurity (Zurich, Switzerland)
- Chainsulting (Germany)
- CoinFabrik (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- ConsenSys Diligence (HQ in New York, USA)
- Cyfrin (Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Danish Blockchain Lab (HQ in Denmark)
- Dedaub (unclear, USA or EU)
- G0 (unclear)
- Hacken (Kyiv, Ukraine)
- Haechi (Seoul, South Korea)
- Halborn (New York, USA)
- HashEx (St. Petersburg, Russia)
- Iosiro (South Africa)
- Least Authority (Berlin, Germany)
- MixBytes (Moscow, Russia)
- NCC (worldwide)
- NVISO (Belgium, Germany)
- NewAlchemy (Seattle, USA)
- OpenZeppelin (worldwide)
- PeckShield (worldwide, originally China)
- Pessimistic (Tallinn, Estonia)
- PepperSec (Moscow, Russia)
- Pickle (unclear, website is broken)
- Quantstamp (San Francisco, USA)
- QuillHash (India)
- Runtime Verification (Illinois, USA)
- SecuRing (Poland, Sweden, Germany)
- Sigma Prime (Sydney, Australia)
- SlowMist (China)
- SmartDec (Moscow, Russia)
- Solidified (Nevada, USA)
- Somish (New Delhi, India)
- Spearbit (USA, but it's aiming to be a DAO)
- Trail of Bits (New York, USA)
- Veridise (Austin, USA)
- Zokyo (Kyiv, Ukraine)
This posts reminds me: I recently attended OpenZeppelin's first community call where they updated users / developers / ... about upcoming changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed96DWbfliQ
It was an interesting session to listen to!
