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Crypto security audits lose trust as institutions demand live monitoring
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Fusion42 · 20 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Institutional crypto investors are shifting from one-time smart contract audits to continuous monitoring of keys, signers and infrastructure, after operational failures (not code flaws) caused 88% of Q2 2026 crypto theft. Only 4% of tracked projects combined audits, bug bounties and active monitoring.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Crypto & Web3, Cybersecurity and Security Infrastructure.
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If you sell crypto security audits, you're selling a product institutions now see as incomplete—they want continuous monitoring after deployment, not a report and done. Shift to selling runtime access controls and incident readiness, or institutions will buy that from someone else.
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