The Audit Gap in Blockchain Security: A Four-Year Empirical Study of Public Audit Findings and Real-World Exploit Incidents

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the Web3 security landscape over the four-year and three-month period from 1 January 2022 to 27 March 2026. The dataset combines 23,818 public audit findings produced by 22 independent security firms with 218 real-world exploit incidents documented by...

An Empirical Analysis of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Disclosed by the Zero Day Initiative

Zero-day vulnerabilities represent some of the most critical threats in cybersecurity, as they correspond to previously unknown flaws in software or hardware that are actively exploited before vendors can develop and deploy patches. During this exposure window, affected systems remain defenseless...