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title: "Smart Contract Security Audit and why you don't need to do it yourself"
date: 2025-04-09
description: "Why external audits matter for smart contracts: timing, risks, and real cases. Learn how to secure your Web3 project — insights from MetaLamp experts."
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# Smart Contract Security Audit and why you don't need to do it yourself

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The recording of the meetup: "Smart contract audit and why you don't need to do it yourself. Stages, processes, deadlines".

 The main theses:

 
- Why it's impossible to do an audit on one's own?
- At what point do you need to think about the audit?
- What type of audit should I choose?
- Interesting findings, cases from the practice of the Oxorio team

 Speaker: Alex Mazaletsky - Team Lead Auditor at Oxorio (Oxor.io )

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