Technical Due Diligence

Oak Security's technical due diligence service provides comprehensive project assessments for investors, venture capital firms, and ecosystem foundations evaluating Web3 protocols and blockchain projects. This service delivers clear, actionable insights using the same rigorous approach Oak Security applies when vetting projects for top-tier VCs and ecosystem foundations.

Service Overview

Designed for investors who need rapid, expert evaluation of a project's technical viability, security posture, and long-term sustainability before making investment decisions or providing ecosystem grants. Oak Security's 600+ engagement track record provides deep pattern recognition for identifying both promising projects and red flags. The service produces a concise one-page report focusing on actionable insights rather than verbose documentation.

What's Included

Strengths and Risks Assessment: Clear identification of technical strengths that support the project's value proposition, potential risks that could impact success or security, and any red flags requiring immediate attention or deal-breaker concerns.

Code Quality Metrics: Objective measurements including readability and maintainability, adherence to best practices and coding standards, test coverage and quality, documentation completeness, and technical debt assessment.

Comparable Projects Analysis: Identification of known forks or derivative projects, comparison to recognized best practices in the category, assessment of novelty versus proven approaches, and evaluation of competitive positioning.

Viability Indicators: Both short-term and long-term assessment covering technical maturity and readiness for launch, scalability considerations, dependency risks, and sustainability of the technical approach.

IP Considerations: Identification of potential intellectual property infringements, licensing compliance issues, and third-party code usage concerns.

Time-Boxed Security Review: Oak Security's experts conduct a focused security review session analyzing the code for common vulnerability patterns and security anti-patterns. While not as comprehensive as a full audit, this provides valuable security insights within the due diligence timeline.

Security and Economic Advisory

For investors seeking deeper strategic guidance, Oak Security also offers bespoke security and economic advisory services that go beyond code-level security to address strategic, architectural, and economic aspects of Web3 protocols. This combines deep security expertise with PhD-level economic analysis to provide holistic protocol optimization.

The security advisory service includes high-level protocol design review before implementation begins, identifying conceptual issues in white papers, specifications, and architecture designs that could lead to unexpected attack vectors or long-term security risks. This proactive approach catches security issues at the design stage, preventing costly rewrites and vulnerabilities that persist through implementation.

Economic advisory is led by Dr. Jan Philipp Fritsche, Managing Director with a PhD in Economics and experience advising the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bank, and European Parliament. The team has reviewed 40+ blockchain protocols for economic robustness, covering protocol mechanism design and analysis, tokenomics modeling and optimization, game-theoretic security analysis, incentive structure evaluation and attack vector identification, economic parameter selection and stress testing, market risk modeling for DeFi protocols, and liquidity mechanism design.

Why Choose Oak Security

Oak Security's team of 50+ senior security researchers includes Master's and PhD holders in Computer Science, Cryptography, Economics, Engineering, and Finance, providing holistic analysis beyond just code review. The technical due diligence service can be customized for investors with specific concerns or portfolio-wide assessment frameworks, with metrics tailored to match an investor's evaluation criteria and delivered on accelerated timelines to match investment decision cycles.