Research focused on identifying smart contract failure modes before deployment.
- ERC-4337 / Account Abstraction systems
- Smart contract execution risk
- Griefing & denial-of-service vectors
- Protocol failure paths
- Pre-launch risk analysis
Most protocols do not fail because of obvious exploits.
They fail when execution assumptions break under real network conditions.
Boundary Labs studies how systems behave outside ideal testing environments.
Focus is placed on identifying failure conditions rather than isolated bugs.
Analysis typically examines:
- execution flow under real network conditions
- assumptions between validation and execution
- griefing and denial-of-service surfaces
- edge cases that appear outside controlled testing environments
The goal is to understand how systems behave when assumptions break.