Halborn Completes Audit of Reef Chain

Derek E. Silva
Reef
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2 min readSep 2, 2021

Halborn, an award-winning blockchain security auditor, recently completed the audit of Reef Finance’s Reef Chain, the first Substrate-based chain to launch its full, public mainnet in coordination with Klever. The results of the audit have now been published, and we are happy to say Halborn found no major issues.

With the vision of Making DeFi Easy, it was important for Reef Finance to launch before another wave of users took notice of blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and especially decentralized finance. Thanks to the diligent work by Halborn, that has been possible and the team can now focus on onboarding the numerous integrations and collaborations announced over the past few months.

In summary, through a variety of automated and manual testing methods over a three-week period, Halborn’s team identified few security risks and recommended further testing and auditing be completed.

When assessing the likelihood of an incident occurring, or the risk scale of the impact, a rating system of 1 to 5 was used with 1 being the least concern, and 5 being the most concern. Putting these two items together, a total score out of 10 could be assessed for any item of concern identified.

In the end, two Medium severity issues were identified, three Low severity issues, and one Informational. All the issues identified can be mitigated through changes to the code, or good smart contract and dApp development practices. This gave Reef Finance the confidence to roll out the public mainnet and continue to engage with Halborn and other auditors as upgrades are made.

You can find a link to the full report in Halborn’s PublicReport repository on GitHub.

About Reef Finance

Reef Finance is building Reef Chain, a DeFi blockchain built using Substrate Framework. Reef Chain provides high scalability, enabling almost instant low-cost transactions, and supports Solidity and EVM, allowing developers to seamlessly migrate their DApps from Ethereum without any change in the codebase. Our vision is to make DeFi easy for everyone to invest in and build DeFi applications on top of Reef Chain.

About Halborn

Halborn is an award-winning, elite cybersecurity company for blockchain organizations.

Security work never ends. Halborn serves as a third-party partner to continuously assess an organization’s most vital assets, drive maximum value and provide world-class cybersecurity consulting and execution every step of the way — far beyond smart contracts.

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Derek E. Silva
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