SINGAPORE, Singapore, February 17th, 2026, CyberNewswire
CredShields announces that the OWASP Smart Contract Security Project has officially released the OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026, a risk prioritization framework derived from structured analysis of 2025 smart contract incidents representing hundreds of millions in contract related losses.
CredShields, supported by its exploit intelligence platforms including SolidityScan and Web3HackHub, led the structured incident aggregation and impact-weighted pattern analysis informing this year’s ranking.
Unlike traditional vulnerability lists, the 2026 Top 10 reflects recurring production failure classes observed in live blockchain systems.
Governance and Privilege Failures Dominate
The highest-ranked risks for 2026 include:
- Access Control Vulnerabilities
- Business Logic Vulnerabilities
- Price Oracle Manipulation
- Flash Loan–Facilitated Attacks
- Proxy & Upgradeability Vulnerabilities
Analysis of 2025 incidents shows that protocol compromise frequently stemmed from:
- Privilege misconfiguration
- Upgrade authority concentration
- Governance design weaknesses
- Insufficient separation of duties
These are not isolated coding defects. They are structural risk exposures.
From Audit Completion to Risk Standardization
While many compromised protocols had undergone security reviews, production failures often emerged from flawed design assumptions and insufficient governance modeling.
For institutions and enterprises evaluating blockchain exposure, the 2026 Top 10 provides a structured taxonomy to inform:
- Governance oversight
- Upgrade authority assessment
- Due diligence review
- Risk committee evaluation
- SDLC policy integration
As institutional participation in digital asset infrastructure increases, structured smart contract risk standards are becoming foundational rather than optional.
Beyond Contract Code
The release also recognizes that significant ecosystem losses in 2025 stemmed from operational vectors, including multisig compromise, governance manipulation, and supply chain exposure.
An accompanying Alternate Top 15 Web3 Attack Vectors expands the lens beyond contract logic, reinforcing that resilient blockchain systems require layered security across governance, infrastructure, and operational controls.
The full OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026 framework and methodology are publicly available through the OWASP Smart Contract Security Project.
About OWASP
The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) is a global nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving software security for more than 25 years. Through community-driven standards, research initiatives, and open security frameworks, OWASP provides widely adopted resources that help organizations identify, prioritize, and mitigate application risk. The OWASP Smart Contract Security Project focuses on standardizing risk classification for blockchain and decentralized systems.
About CredShields
CredShields is a security research and technology company advancing resilience across traditional applications and Web3 infrastructure. By combining deep security expertise with blockchain-native exploit intelligence, its platforms including SolidityScan and Web3HackHub provide structured risk analysis, automated detection capabilities, and governance focused security insights for enterprises, institutions, and protocol teams operating production grade systems.
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