Arbitrum Security Program
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A 12-month Arbitrum Foundation program that subsidizes a portion of a third-party smart contract audit for projects building on Arbitrum, with pre-audit AI security screening. Approved projects are matched with one of 13 audit firms, including Trail of Bits, OpenZeppelin, Certora, Cyfrin and Sherlock.
Who can apply
- on Arbitrum
- smart contract code that is audit-ready, with a defined audit scope
What the form asks
- Email: your email
- Company/Project name: a project name
- What are you building?: a one-line description
- Problem & Solution: the problem and your solution
- Website URL: a website link
- X/Twitter URL: the project's X link
- Region: your team's region
- City: your team's city
- Team size (full-time employees/contractors): your team size
- Scope of the Audit: the contracts in audit scope
- Line of Code (SLOC): lines of code in scope
- Desired completion date: a target audit completion date
- Git Repos: optional
- Preferred auditor: optional
- Audit Budget (in USD, e.g. $20,000): your audit budget in USD
- Number of founders/contributors: number of founders
- Name (1st founder/contributor): the primary contact's name
- Email (1st founder/contributor): the primary contact's email
- Role (1st founder/contributor): the primary contact's role
- Telegram (1st founder/contributor): the primary contact's Telegram
- LinkedIn (1st founder/contributor): the primary contact's LinkedIn
- Github (1st founder/contributor): the primary contact's GitHub
- Name, email, role, Telegram, LinkedIn and Github (2nd and 3rd founder/contributor): optional
- Mention any other founders NOT mentioned above: optional
- Are the founders/contributors committed full-time (if not, explain why): optional
- What is the equity/token breakdown between founders: the equity split between founders
- Which Virtual Machines are you targeting?: the virtual machines you target
- Which chains are you targeting?: the chains you target
- How would you classify the project primarily?: a project category
- When did you start to work on this?: when you started, with any pivots
- Describe the competition and or the alternatives and why you are better: competitors and why you win
- What's your current traction?: your current traction
- Does the project have a token or plan to launch one?: answer the launch plans question
- Did you fundraise or receive any other type of grants previously?: prior raises and grants
- How much money does the company have? (USD): cash on hand in USD
- What's the monthly burn rate? (USD): monthly burn in USD
- What's the runway? (months): runway in months
- Referral: optional
- I acknowledge that participation is subject to final approval, and contingent on reaching an agreement regarding the project's alignment with the Arbitrum ecosystem (e.g., branding, deployment strategy, marketing, and ecosystem integration).: accept the alignment terms
- I acknowledge that the project accepts that the audited code is exclusive to Arbitrum for a set period of time.: accept Arbitrum exclusivity
Rules
- The program runs 12 months from its launch on September 28, 2026; no application deadline is stated.
- Eligible: projects yet to launch, migrating from another chain, in the growth stage, launching new features or products, or launching their own Arbitrum Chain.
- Before an auditor is sourced, an approved project must confirm its codebase is audit-ready, agree to the applicable audit subsidy, and sign a Commitment Agreement with the Arbitrum Foundation, which may include exclusivity or other commercial commitments.
- The form asks you to accept that the audited code is exclusive to Arbitrum for a set period of time.
- The Foundation subsidizes a portion of each audit depending on the commercial agreement reached. Only the agreed initial audit is covered.
- Plan for about one month between approval and the expected start of the audit.
- Reviewed on technical maturity, team, likelihood of success, and alignment with the Arbitrum ecosystem. The form says applications are processed in about 2 weeks.
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