August 29, 2025
The Top 10 Most Threatening Vulnerabilities in Web3 Protocols: #10 Integer Overflow/Underflow
Maintaining numerical integrity is essential to protocol security. Without bounded and validated operations, protocols lose system assurance and expose themselves to silent failures that corrupt state, halt execution, or distort incentives. Robust arithmetic is not an optimization detail - it’s a core requirement for trustworthy DeFi.