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Sherlock Protocol

Sherlock is a Web3 security company providing lifecycle security for protocols and other high-stakes onchain systems. Its offerings include AI-powered smart-contract analysis, collaborative audits, audit contests, bug bounties, and financial coverage for eligible audited code.
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Sherlock


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Sherlock offers blockchain security audits and smart contract audit services by leveraging a distributed network of auditors to identify and prevent vulnerabilities before mainnet deployment.

Category: Insurance
TVL: $504K


Chains:
Ethereum

Sherlock Audits


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Sherlock Audits is a security auditing platform featuring contests for upcoming projects. It allows developers to submit their code for review by security experts competing for rewards. Contests include details like project scope, reward amounts, and start/end dates.


Blackthorn


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Blackthorn is a top-tier smart-contract audit track from Sherlock for high-stakes protocols, critical upgrades, and complex onchain systems. It is reserved for engagements where the consequences of security failures are especially significant and is supported by experienced security researchers.

Category: Service Provider

Audit Contests


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Sherlock Audit Contests scopes a protocol codebase, anchors review with a senior reviewer, and brings independent security researchers to test it in parallel. Sherlock then judges, deduplicates, and severity-aligns findings; after patches are applied, a Senior Watson reviews the changes and confirms the final state. The service is intended to give Web3 protocol teams broad pre-launch vulnerability discovery and actionable reviewed results.

Category: Service Provider

Collaborative Audits


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Collaborative Audits is Sherlock’s private pre-launch security review service for Web3 protocol codebases. It uses verified researcher performance, specialization, code complexity, and historical findings to assemble a tailored senior-led audit team, identify vulnerabilities, and provide clear fixes. Engagements can continue into fix review, adversarial testing, post-launch bug bounties, and qualifying Shield coverage.

Category: Service Provider

Sherlock AI


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Sherlock AI is Sherlock’s development-stage security offering for Web3 protocols. It connects to GitHub repositories to analyze commits and pull requests, identify vulnerabilities and attack paths, and provide issue context, severity, remediation guidance, and verification tests before formal audits.

Category: Developer Tooling

Bug Bounties By Sherlock


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Bug Bounties by Sherlock is Sherlock’s post-launch protection offering for live Web3 protocols. Independent researchers test deployed contracts and submit stake-gated reports, which Sherlock senior auditors and security staff validate and triage. The service carries forward context from earlier security reviews and supports continuous security coverage as deployed code changes.

Category: Risk Assessment

Sherlock Shield


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Sherlock Shield provides time-bound financial coverage for eligible Web3 smart-contract code after it completes a Sherlock audit and approved fix review. Coverage applies only to approved audited contracts, with the amount determined by audit findings and audit type, up to $500,000. Incident claims are subject to scope, timing, verification, and commercial terms; Shield does not guarantee payment or fund availability.

Category: Onchain Insurance