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Blockchain security firm Veridise: ZK audits are twice as likely to uncover critical issues as other audit types

On July 22nd, blockchain security firm Veridise reported that audits of zero-knowledge (ZK) projects are twice as likely to uncover critical issues as other audit types. According to a report, Veridise analyzed 1,605 vulnerabilities found in the past 100 audits, with an average of about 16 issues found per audit and 18 issues uncovered by ZK audits. However, when looking at critical vulnerabilities, Veridise found that 55% of ZK audits contained critical issues, compared to 27.5% for other audits, including smart contracts, wallet integrations, blockchain implementations, and repeaters. Overall, the most common vulnerabilities identified by the Veridise audit were logic errors (385), maintainability (355) and data validation (304), which accounted for 65 percent of all issues identified by its audit, the company said. These three issues also dominated the 360 ZK audit-specific vulnerabilities identified.