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Our blog posts are a great way to learn about our audits and formal verification engagements for readers who may find the audit reports too long or technical.

The Engineered Chaos Bugs Fear

By Runtime VerificationJune 15th, 2026

Fuzzing is one of the most practical ways to find bugs that unit tests miss, especially in large code bases. At a basic level, a fuzzer repeatedly feeds a series of not-so-randomized inputs into a program with the objective of identifying crashes, failed assertions, unexpected behavior, or broken assumptions. Many modern languages now have good fuzzing support built into or near the standard developer workflow.

The Future of Safety for Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)

By Runtime VerificationJune 11th, 2026

A simple bug in the software running inside a pacemaker or an insulin pump is not just a crashed app but it could also put thousands of lives at risk. Software as a Medical Device has raised the stakes of every line of code, and the testing toolkit alone is no longer enough.

When the Software Holds but the Money Leaves Anyway

By Runtime VerificationJune 3rd, 2026

A technical analysis of the April 2026 KelpDAO bridge incident, in which $292M was lost despite every audited on-chain component performing exactly as specified, with the actual compromise occurring in the off-chain operational layer that surrounded them.

What the TanStack npm compromise tells us about software trust.

By Runtime VerificationMay 20th, 2026

Runtime Verification Inc applies formal methods to improve the safety, reliability, and correctness of computing systems for aerospace, automotive, and the blockchain.

From Rust Code to Mathematical Proof: How We Verify Safety-Critical Rust

By Natalie KlausMay 19th, 2026

Runtime Verification applies formal methods to cryptographic and safety-critical software. We turn production Rust into machine-checked Lean 4 proofs of correctness, no sorry left behind.

The risk of open source code: what the past still teaches us

By Runtime VerificationMay 18th, 2026

The most consequential security failures in privacy software rarely come from anyone being careless. They come from properties that held in one place and quietly stopped holding in another.

How a single unit difference caused a $370 million space disaster

By Runtime VerificationMay 7th, 2026

Runtime Verification Inc applies formal methods to improve the safety, reliability, and correctness of computing systems for aerospace, automotive, and the blockchain.

AI is making software harder to secure

By Runtime VerificationMay 5th, 2026

Last week was a bad one for tech companies. Vercel got breached through a third-party AI tool with too much access. Bitwarden shipped a backdoor through a compromised dependency. At Lovable, any user could read any other user's project. And $292M left KelpDAO after a single outside verifier got compromised and signed a forged message.

KelpDAO Audit Passed. $292M Left Anyway.

By Runtime VerificationApril 20th, 2026

On April 18, 2026, an attacker drained $292M from KelpDAO's Ethereum escrow in a single transaction. The OFTAdapter contract that released 116,500 rsETH did exactly what it was designed to do. No bug was exploited, no zero-day in LayerZero's on-chain code. The entire on-chain system was, by conventional security standards, clean.

Wonderland CTF 2026: Fixed Deposits Challenge Results by Runtime Verification

By Runtime VerificationApril 8th, 2026

Earlier this week, our team at Runtime Verification participated in Wonderland’s CTF, providing one of the challenges to snatch a piece of the $30,000 prize pool. We want to thank everyone who joined us and worked tirelessly to solve all the challenges (and congrats to the winning teams!).

Introducing the Simbolik Contributor Program

By Raoul SchaffranekMarch 19th, 2026

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