Pre-Mainnet? Why QuillShield Is Right for You
Don’t wait until deploying to discover vulnerabilities.
There’s a lot of excitement that comes with building a project or dApp. Turning ideas into action, problems into solutions, or even memes into coins can be intoxicating and highly rewarding.
However, in the rush to bring innovations to market, many developers overlook one critical aspect of success: security. In our rapidly growing web3 environment where contracts are deployed, copied, and compromised daily, even a single audit has the power to make or break a project.
But it’s important to note that security is not just a box to check before your mainnet launch. It should be a proactive, continuous practice to protect your smart contracts from vulnerabilities that can lead to costly exploits.
That’s why QuillShield, QuillAI's AI agent for solidity audits, is designed to be the cornerstone of your development process from day one.
Why Proactive Security is Essential
Project timelines in web3 are incredibly fluid. Since the flexibility and versatility required to create a successful project or dApp varies greatly throughout the blockchain industry, there’s sometimes no telling how long a build will actually take.
But even when deadline extensions become the norm, waiting until deployment to secure your contracts can leave you vulnerable to exploits. That’s why proactive security needs to be embedded into your pre-mainnet development process from the very start.
It’s generally understood that even issues involving things like timestamp dependency, function visibility, and overflow/underflow could threaten your project if left unchecked. However, just because these issues are common, doesn’t mean they don't often go overlooked or unfixed.
The unfortunate reality is that when projects treat security as an afterthought or forego checks and balances until the final stretch, exploits are almost assured to happen. That, or they risk wasting time with significant revisions.
While most development teams approach bugs with bounties or expensive and time-consuming audits later in the game, this can often prove to be a bottleneck. While these more substantial options definitely have their merits, there is an easier and more cost-effective way to integrate security directly into the workflow pre-launch.
With QuillShield’s AI audits you don't have to rely solely on external means. You can internally run audits as frequently as you like throughout development to ensure issues like misspelled constructors and uninitialized local variables are amended proactively and exploits like reentrancy are mitigated.
What Makes QuillShield Effective
Beyond simply auditing smart contracts, QuillShield offers a wide and growing range of features for developers who want to be proactive about security, including:
Instant & Automated AuditsWith QuillShield, you can run automated AI audits that rapidly assess your smart contract’s security. These audits are fast, accurate, and streamlined to fit into your development cycle, providing you with real-time insights as you code. This allows you to catch vulnerabilities early, significantly reducing the risk of last-minute surprises before launch.
One-Click Vulnerability FixesIdentifying a vulnerability is only half the battle: resolving it quickly is equally as crucial. QuillShield provides one-click vulnerability fixes, making it easy for developers to remediate security issues without disrupting their timelines.
Shareable Audit ReportsTransparency is essential in the development process. Whether you're collaborating with other developers or communicating with stakeholders, QuillShield generates comprehensive audit reports that can be easily shared with your team. These reports combine transparency with technical depth, ensuring that everyone involved understands your project's security posture.
IDE-Like View & Multi-Project ManagementFor developers juggling multiple projects, QuillShield offers an integrated development environment (IDE) interface and multi-project management. This seamless experience allows you to monitor and manage the security of all your projects from a single dashboard, making it easier to stay on top of security.
How QuillShield Outperforms the Competition
When considering an automated auditing solution for your project or dApp, it’s crucial to pick one that offers comprehensive results.
This is why we regularly compare QuillShield's functionality with popular alternatives like ChatGPT-4, Audit Wizard, OpenZeppelin Defender, and Solidity Scan to ensure that the QuillAI Network’s AI agents are an additive force in strengthening web3’s security infrastructure.
When measured by factors such as vulnerability detection, accuracy, and the helpfulness of recommendations, QuillShield consistently ranks highest in its class.
In multiple tests, QuillShield has identified vulnerabilities with higher accuracy and offered more practical, actionable insights than its competitors. While other tools might identify a high number of vulnerabilities, their speed, accuracy, or usefulness of recommendations often falls short.
In all, QuillShield delivers precise results with recommendations that are genuinely helpful in remediating security issues before they become threats.
Build with Confidence from Day One
Things move incredibly fast in web3. What might be standard or trending one day could easily become defunct or obsolete the next. And because there’s no surefire way to predict what the next week, month, or year will hold for crypto, DeFi, and NFTs, it’s imperative to be proactive.
But what proactivity means for, say, traders, is vastly different than for devs. While analyzing charts and mitigating risk might be sufficient for keeping users safe, builders have a responsibility to ensure the platforms these users operate across are themselves secure.
Building in web3 means embracing innovation, but it also means acknowledging the risks. As you bring your vision to life, ensuring that your project is built on a foundation of security should be a top priority.
Don’t wait until deploying to discover vulnerabilities. Secure your project with QuillShield—the AI auditing tool designed to protect your project every step of the way.