Decent is a seamless cross-chain transaction network for dApps and developers. Their platform provides an all-in-one API and frontend SDK, enabling instant cross-chain swaps, onboarding, and chain-abstracted transactions. Security is mission-critical for Decent. Even after 2 manual audits, vulnerabilities still existed in their smart contract code. With Octane’s AI smart contract security analysis models, these risks were detected and fixed before deployment, preventing a potential exploit. Here’s how we helped them stay bulletproof.
How Octane AI Secured Decent’s Smart Contracts with 24/7 Offensive Intelligence
Decent is a seamless cross-chain transaction network for dApps and developers. Their platform provides an all-in-one API and frontend SDK, enabling instant cross-chain swaps, onboarding, and chain-abstracted transactions. Security is mission-critical for Decent. Even after 2 manual audits, vulnerabilities still existed in their smart contract code. With Octane’s AI smart contract security analysis models, these risks were detected and fixed before deployment, preventing a potential exploit. Here’s how we helped them stay bulletproof.
Challenge: Critical Vulnerabilities Missed by Audits
Decent was building its Universal Transaction Box (UTB) to streamline cross-chain payments. Their goal was to create a seamless, secure, and scalable way for users to transact across multiple blockchains.
After two manual security audits and lots of code changes, some bugs slipped through the cracks, exposing them to hidden risks and potential exploits. Traditional audits provide a snapshot in time, but they don’t continuously scan code for new threats, and as Decent continued to build, new bugs arose.
To ensure the protocol launched securely, Decent needed a smart contract analysis tool that worked alongside their development pipeline for real-time code analysis.
Solution: AI Smart Contract Security With Octane
By integrating Octane into their CI/CD pipeline, Decent enabled real-time, automated smart contract security scanning on every code push.
Octane functions like an AI Security Engineer embedded in their dev team — constantly scanning for vulnerabilities and delivering precise, actionable fixes. Octane’s AI security caught two severe bugs that was unknown to the team prior.
Refund Calculation Bug
A refund calculation bug occurs when a contract incorrectly determines the amount to be refunded was the entire contract balance, leading to complete asset drainage on the contract.
- Bug: The contract used its entire token balance for calculating refunds instead of the increase in token balance during the call.
- Impact: An attacker could drain all tokens in the contract through the original refund logic.
Frontrunning Attack
An inflatable token vault was used as a price oracle and frontrunning the push of the price operation to adjust the rate temporarily led to severe potentials for token loss for users.
- Bug: During the rebase process in UTB, an attacker could manipulate the exchange rate of the protocol by frontrunning a rebase transaction and manipulating the tokens in a 4626 vault used in the rate calculation.
- Impact: This could result in significant financial losses for users .
With Octane’s 24/7 offensive intelligence, Decent’s security team had full visibility into each vulnerability’s severity, attack surface, and potential exploitability.
Results: Patching Vulnerabilities in Real-Time
Decent swiftly patched these vulnerabilities months before deployment.
Traditional security workflows often require waiting weeks for auditors to re-review fixes. With Octane, Decent’s engineering team was able to fix issues in real time, allowing them to maintain rapid development without compromising their security.
Outcomes:
- Uncover nknown critical vulnerabilities.
- Faster development cycles with real-time security scanning.
- Peace of mind not getting hacked.
Customer Quote:
“Leveraging Octane helped us uncover several missed bugs and speed up our development cycles. Truly a must for crypto-first teams.”
– Will Kantaros, Decent
Why Continuous Code Security Matters
Relying solely on one-time manual audits is not enough. The rapid pace of DeFi development means new vulnerabilities can emerge with every code push, and even the best audits can miss critical security threats. Without continuous smart contract security analysis, teams risk launching insecure protocols and getting hacked for millions.
By integrating Octane’s 24/7 offensive intelligence into your CI/CD pipeline, you gain real-time smart contract vulnerability detection, so your code stays secure. This proactive approach helps teams prevent exploits, accelerate secure development, and reduce reliance on expensive bug bounties and repeated audits.
Whether you're developing DeFi protocols, NFT platforms, or blockchain infrastructure, continuous security scanning is essential for protecting user funds and maintaining trust in your ecosystem.
- Traditional audits aren’t enough — they offer a one-time snapshot but don’t provide continuous code security during development.
- Octane provides real-time smart contract security analysis, reducing the need for repeated manual audits and expensive bug bounties.
- If you’re shipping mission-critical smart contracts, don’t leave security as an afterthought.
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