Institutional investors are moving beyond smart contract audits and seeking more reliable cryptographic security metrics.
A new report released by blockchain security company Hacken pointed out that traditional trust signals have repeatedly failed to accurately identify which projects may be attacked. Therefore, institutional investors no longer regard smart contract audits as the primary criterion for measuring cryptographic security.
This "Hacken Second Quarter 2026 Security and Compliance Report" covers 1427 projects with market capitalizations of more than US$1 million from online assets from the top 50 centralized exchanges with CoinGecko Trust Score. The report found that only 9% of projects deployed third-party monitoring mechanisms, while only 4% also had active vulnerability bounty plans, security audits and monitoring.

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