Provider at a glance
- Category
- Smart-Contract Audits
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- zellic.io
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Details
Scored 79 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read on file.
Zellic
Smart contract audits
Smart-Contract Audits
#2 Overall
Ranked #2 of 9 smart-contract audits in the published ranking
79
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- Low evidence confidence
Is Zellic right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Post-audit exploit record9/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Accountability & reconstructability7/10 here; Trail of Bits scores 10
- Method depth for your stack8/10 here; Certora scores 10
- Price transparency2/10 here; Certora scores 7
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What will Zellic cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Transactions per year
- 1k
How safe is Zellic?
- Evidence: unknown4 of 4 criteria scored; no receipt file yet. The score is provisional until a quoted source is on file.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Zellic
Compare all 4- 1Certora3 points above · stronger on price transparency (7 against 2)82
- 3Sherlock8 points below · stronger on price transparency (4 against 2)71
- 4Trail of Bits8 points below · stronger on accountability (10 against 7)71
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Find out if Zellic fits you
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Why this rank
Why Zellic ranks #2
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (22.7 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
329+9.224.09#1/9Loading evidence…
287+6.277.010#4/9Loading evidence…
248+6.146.010#3/9Loading evidence…
162+1.022.08#5/9Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−3behind Certora, #1
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 77–81 and stays #2
Evidence4 of 4 scoredno receipt file for this category
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Zellic’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Accountability & reconstructability 7 → 10 on its ladder · passes Certora+382#2 → #1
Price transparency 2 → 6 on its ladder · passes Certora+482#2 → #1
Post-audit exploit record 9 → 5 on its ladder · Sherlock passes it−471#2 → #4
Accountability & reconstructability 7 → 2 on its ladder · Sherlock passes it−570#2 → #5
Method depth for your stack 8 → 3 on its ladder · Sherlock passes it−571#2 → #3
Smallest climb: accountability & reconstructability 7 → 10 passes Certora, #1.
Strengths
1 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Post-audit exploit record — 9/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
3 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Accountability & reconstructability — 7/10 against a category best of 10/10
- Method depth for your stack — 8/10 against a category best of 10/10
- Price transparency — 2/10 against a category best of 8/10
Record watch-outs
- Acquired Code4rena, which is now winding down — price that precedent into any platform dependency
- Auditor identity is not committed pre-engagement
- No published price; engagement effort appears only after the fact, in public reports (e.g. 1.7 person-weeks for AFX Bridge)
- A Sherlock market post puts the premium over EVM at 25–40% for Rust/Solana and 30–45% for Cairo/Move — a market figure, not Zellic’s rate
Competitive position
Where Zellic leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 914.0 of 20 · constant here
Published criteria#1 / 917.0 of 30 · pool best
Friction#7 / 92.7 of 10 · best 5.3
Trust record#2 / 95.6 of 8 · best 6.4
Measured data#1 / 98.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Zellic leads
- Post-audit exploit record#1 / 9
- Method depth for your stack#3 / 9
Where it trailsNo criterion in the bottom third of its pool.
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Certora#1 of 9 · score 82 · 3.0 points ahead
Zellic leads on
- Post-audit exploit record9 vs 4
Certora leads on
- Accountability & reconstructability8 vs 7
- Method depth for your stack10 vs 8
- Price transparency7 vs 2
Largest single reason Certora is ahead: trust record (+2.1 display points).Scenario cost: Certora has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Sherlock#3 of 9 · score 71 · 8.0 points behind
Zellic leads on
- Post-audit exploit record9 vs 5
- Method depth for your stack8 vs 5
Sherlock leads on
- Accountability & reconstructability8 vs 7
- Price transparency4 vs 2
Largest single reason Zellic is ahead: published criteria (+8.8 display points).Scenario cost: Sherlock has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Trail of Bits#4 of 9 · score 71 · 8.0 points behind
Zellic leads on
- Post-audit exploit record9 vs 3
Trail of Bits leads on
- Accountability & reconstructability10 vs 7
- Method depth for your stack9 vs 8
- Price transparency3 vs 2
Largest single reason Zellic is ahead: published criteria (+4.2 display points).Scenario cost: Trail of Bits has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
82 vs 79 · gap 3.0Why Certora ranks above Zellic
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 3.0 to within rounding. Zellic is ahead on published criteria (+0.3 in its favour).
DimensionThisCertoraGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight17.016.9+0.3, better
Friction · 12% weight2.73.3−1.6, worse
Trust record · 9% weight5.66.4−2.1, worse
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisCertoraPoints
Post-audit exploit record · w3294+5.12, better
Accountability & reconstructability · w2878−0.90, worse
Method depth for your stack · w24810−1.54, worse
Price transparency · w1627−2.56, worse
Net7982−3.0
Your scenario
Zellic is not priced for this scenario
The cheapest published tier that covers your usage. List price before any discount; add-ons priced separately are excluded. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
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Transactions per year · your input1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 14 September 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory medianNot priced0 of 9 rows priced
Cheapest pricedNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
9 of 9 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
No evidence reading date recorded
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceUnknownno observation on file
No structured observation on file for this category; the strengths are the catalog’s published values.Public receiptsReading…category publishes no receipt file
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceNot yet ratedcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
No structured observation on file for this category; the receipt count is not counted.RobustnessHoldsrank #2 across every one-point re-run
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.No structured observation is on file for this provider in this category; the strengths are the catalog’s published values.
9 listed rows in this category still await an evidence read and sit outside the scored pool.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Post-audit exploit recordstrength 9 · weight 32Report an error——
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Accountability & reconstructabilitystrength 7 · weight 28Report an error——
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Method depth for your stackstrength 8 · weight 24Report an error——
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Price transparencystrength 2 · weight 16Report an error——
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Contract failure (Zellic 9/10): the code holding the funds is exploited.Scored by Post-audit exploit record · 32%
- Information failure (Zellic 7/10): the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.Scored by Accountability & reconstructability · 28%
Not assessed by this ranking: Liveness failure, Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Method depth for your stack (24%), Price transparency (16%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- No public price — Zellic's contact page reads 'Get a free quote today.' Zellic does disclose engagement effort in its public reports (e.g. 'a total of 1.7 person-weeks' by four consultants for AFX Bridge, May 2026), so engagement size is observable after the fact, but no rate, minimum or day rate is published.Zellic contact page + public report archive (no price published) ↗ · 14 September 2026
- Prices published in
- USDZellic contact page + public report archive (no price published) ↗ · 14 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Solana, Sui, Cosmos, Starknet, EVM
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Protocol teams and institutional builders
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Quote-only; no self-serve and no published availability.
- Availability note
- Enterprise engagement by quote only ('Get a free quote today.'); no eligibility or sanctions terms were found on Zellic's privacy policy or contact page, and its terms URL returned 404 (read 14 September 2026).
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
10 methodology entries
- currentCurrent verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 79, #2 of 9. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
- 16 September 2026
2026.09.15Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt smart_contract_audits:zellic:2026.10.18:a40317dbdfb1
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