Post by Nethermind

For years, security was the last box before launch. You finished the code, booked an audit, fixed what came back, shipped. That worked when there was less on the line. It doesn't anymore. The better teams now run security through the whole build, not just at the end. Scanning from the start. Adversarial testing before the audit, not as a substitute for it. By the time the audit happens, it's the deepest pass in the stack, not the entire defense. We ran that end to end on Particle CS's Bloxchain Protocol. AuditAgent scanned as the code was being written. An AgentArena competition threw independent agents at it. Then our auditors went deep on what was left, the bugs rooted in the design, the kind a scanner won't catch because they take a person to reason through. If you're heading to mainnet, that's the real choice. One security process that connects, or four steps that never talk to each other.