Tokenomics Audit
Secure the economic layer that underpins your entire protocol.
Get a quoteA rigorous analysis of your token model, emission schedule, incentive mechanisms, and economic attack surfaces — ensuring that your protocol's financial design is as robust as its code.
Technical security and economic security are not the same thing. A protocol can be free of code vulnerabilities and still be destroyed by an economic attack: flash loan manipulation, governance takeover via token accumulation, incentive misalignment that creates predictable drains, or emission schedules that concentrate supply in ways that destabilise the market. Deep Guard's tokenomics audit examines the financial design of your protocol with the same adversarial rigour we apply to code.
Our process, step by step.
Every engagement follows a structured methodology. No steps are skipped. No shortcuts are taken.
Token Model Review
We analyse the foundational token design: supply mechanics, vesting schedules, allocation distribution, inflation or deflation mechanisms, and any token utility functions that affect protocol behaviour.
Incentive Mechanism Analysis
Every incentive structure in the protocol is examined for alignment: liquidity mining rewards, staking yields, governance incentives, and fee distribution. We identify where incentives create predictable attack opportunities or long-term misalignment.
Economic Attack Simulation
We model and simulate known economic attack vectors: flash loan price manipulation, governance capture via token accumulation, liquidity drain attacks, and incentive-driven run dynamics.
Stress Testing
Token model behaviour is stress-tested under adverse market conditions: extreme price volatility, liquidity crises, coordinated selling pressure, and protocol-specific shock scenarios.
Report and Design Recommendations
A full tokenomics security report documents every identified economic vulnerability, the conditions under which it becomes exploitable, and concrete redesign recommendations where necessary.
Economic security report
Documented analysis of every economic vulnerability class identified across your token model and incentive structures.
Attack vector analysis
Modelled attack scenarios showing under what conditions each economic vulnerability becomes exploitable.
Incentive design recommendations
Specific changes to emission schedules, reward structures, and incentive mechanisms to reduce economic attack surface.
Stress test results
Documented protocol behaviour under extreme market conditions, with identified failure thresholds and mitigation strategies.
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