Understand the project
Practical overview
When it fits
Use Defihacklabs when historical DeFi incidents are useful as reproducible examples for security research, testing, auditing practice or technical training.
Who it is for
- Smart-contract security researchers
- Solidity and Foundry developers
- Auditors studying historical DeFi incidents
- Learners working through transaction-debugging and exploit-analysis exercises
Documented uses
- Reproduce documented DeFi exploit incidents in Foundry-based tests
- Study historical smart-contract failure modes
- Build local incident-replay or regression-testing workflows
- Use structured lessons to learn transaction debugging and proof-of-concept development
Before you choose
Requirements & limits
The repository is public and identified with an Apache-2.0 license.
- It is centered on Foundry and Solidity, so those technologies are relevant to the intended workflow.
- The project states that 877 incidents are included, offering a broad historical test corpus.
- The academy provides lessons spanning transaction debugging, proof-of-concept writing, rug-pull analysis and a named bridge incident.
- Transaction-debugging tools are linked, but the evidence does not describe an integration API.
- Adding new Foundry cases is marked Likely compatible; connecting reproduced cases to transaction-debugging tools is marked Verified, with integration details unspecified.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Evidence and transparency
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 1 October 2026
- Original website title
- SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs · Official homepage title · retained in its source language