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Solana Program Security Audits

Solana processes 40M+ daily transactions with billions in TVL across DeFi, NFTs, and payments. Its account-based architecture creates entirely different vulnerability classes than the EVM. The same model produced the Wormhole ($320M), Mango ($114M), and Cashio ($52M) exploits. Our Rust-native auditors review your programs against the classes that actually cause Solana losses, before mainnet.

40M+

Daily transactions

$8B+

DeFi TVL

2,000+

Active programs

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Solana-Specific Security Risks

Every blockchain has unique security properties. These are the risks specific to building on Solana.

Account Model Vulnerabilities

Solana programs don't own their data. Accounts must be explicitly validated: ownership, type, initialization status. Missing checks are the #1 exploit vector.

CPI (Cross-Program Invocation) Risks

Programs calling other programs can be tricked into invoking attacker-controlled code that mimics expected interfaces.

PDA Seed Collisions

Program Derived Addresses with weak seeds can collide, allowing attackers to substitute malicious accounts.

Unchecked Arithmetic in Release Mode

Rust's integer overflow checks are disabled in release builds by default. Programs that rely on debug-mode panics ship exploitable math.

Sysvar & Account Spoofing

Reading a sysvar (clock, instructions, rent) from an account that was never validated. Wormhole's $320M hack used a forged instructions sysvar to bypass signature verification.

Signer Authorization Gaps

Missing or incorrect signer checks on privileged instructions. Admin functions, withdrawals, and state mutations can be triggered by accounts that never signed.

Oracle & Price Manipulation

Programs that trust manipulable price feeds or thin-liquidity AMM prices. Mango ($114M), Crema ($8.8M), and Nirvana ($3.5M) were all Solana price-manipulation exploits.

Liquid Staking & Restaking Risk

LST and restaking programs concentrate stake authority, delegation logic, and reward math into a few accounts. Exchange-rate manipulation, stale validator sets, and withdrawal-queue edge cases are the recurring findings — and an unbacked mint upstream becomes a collateral failure for every integrator downstream.

Airdrop & Token Launch Abuse

Claim programs ship under deadline pressure. Merkle-proof validation gaps, replayable claims, and sybil-farmable distribution logic are the patterns that turn a launch into an incident.

Notable Exploits on Solana

Real incidents that demonstrate why Solana security audits matter.

Wormhole

$320M2022

Signature verification bypass: deprecated system program function allowed forged guardian set.

Mango Markets

$114M2022

Oracle price manipulation via concentrated trading in thin liquidity.

Cashio

$52M2022

Missing account validation on collateral backing check.

Crema Finance

$8.8M2022

Forged price tick account let the attacker report fake liquidity prices and drain pools.

Nirvana Finance

$3.5M2022

Flash-loan attack manipulated the ANA bonding-curve price to mint and redeem at a profit.

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