Direct answer · §03 Auditing

Does an audit make my ZK protocol secure?

Short answer

No. An audit is a time-boxed review by people who did not write the code; it raises confidence and finds classes of defect that internal review misses, but it does not certify absence of bugs and does not transfer responsibility. Treat it as one layer alongside specification, testing, automated circuit analysis, formal verification where affordable, staged rollout with value caps, and a funded bug bounty. See Section 03.

By MarketComp Updated 2026-09-12 v1.3 About the authors Changelog

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MarketComp (2026). Does an audit make my ZK protocol secure?. The ZK Field Manual (Version 1.3). MarketComp. https://zkpick.com/faq/does-an-audit-make-my-zk-protocol-secure/

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