AI will forever change smart contract audits

Current smart contract audits are episodic, point-in-time snapshots that fail to capture the dynamic, adversarial nature of Web3, often missing economic failure modes. The future of assurance lies in integrating platform practices with AI, moving toward continuous verification anchored by models, solvers, fuzzers, simulation, and live telemetry, rather than artisanal PDF reports. While modern AI struggles with the temporal and adversarial correctness required in smart contract engineering (like Solidity's execution order dependencies or Solana's account model), a pragmatic path involves hybridizing LLMs with symbolic and simulation backends to extract intent and provide guarantees. This system will be orchestrated by specialized, agentic processes that continuously sense and reason, measuring success via property coverage and counterexample yield. Ultimately, AI-augmented assurance is inevitable because Web3's environment demands continuous verification, migrating assurance from a one-time milestone to an ongoing operating capability.

(Source：Cointelegraph)