Why are audits not necessarily accurate?

Currently, XEEX uses three auditing companies (Honeypot.is, Go Plus, and Quick Intel). Although they can provide preliminary security analysis and risk warnings about contracts, their results are not necessarily accurate for the following reasons:

1. Complexity of smart contracts The code of smart contracts is often very complex, and automated tools may not understand some complex logic or dynamic behaviors when analyzing. For example, some contracts may dynamically change their behavior through special programming techniques, resulting in audit tools being unable to accurately predict their behavior, especially at runtime.

2. New attack methods and vulnerabilities Blockchain technology and the cryptocurrency ecosystem are developing rapidly, and new attack methods and vulnerabilities continue to emerge. Audit tools may not be able to keep up with the latest security threats, especially those that are not widely documented. This makes them less effective in detecting certain types of vulnerabilities.

3. Tool circumvention Experienced developers may specifically write code to circumvent these automated audit tools, making them unable to detect potential malicious behavior. For example, developers can deceive audit tools by hiding or delaying malicious behavior, making the audit results appear safe, but there may still be risks during actual operation.

4. Some smart contracts are upgradeable, that is, the logic of the contract can be changed by administrators or governance processes after deployment. This means that even if the current contract passes the audit, future upgrades may still introduce vulnerabilities or malicious behavior, and automated tools can often only analyze the current version of the code and cannot predict future changes.

5. Disguise of the honeypot mechanism A honeypot is a contract designed to lure users into making transactions and then lock funds. Developers can use complex code structures or special logic to make the honeypot mechanism appear normal under normal conditions, but activate under specific conditions or interactions. Audit tools may fail to capture these hidden conditions or specific interactions, leading to misjudgments.

6. Time lock or delayed triggering Some malicious contracts use time lock or delayed trigger mechanisms to show malicious behavior until specific conditions are met. Such behavior is difficult for static analysis tools to detect. Therefore, occasionally there will be a situation where the token risk prompt is green in the previous second and the token risk prompt is red in the second second. At the same time, there is no audit agency on the market that can detect situations such as delayed Pixiu. XEEX does not verify and is not responsible for the quality of third-party verification companies. Please be sure to check carefully before purchasing any tokens.