Skip to content

AI-Powered Economic Security Analysis #60

Description

@Nanle-code

Create an AI system that analyzes economic security and financial risks in smart contracts:

  1. Economic Vulnerability Detection: Detect economic attacks and arbitrage opportunities
  2. Liquidity Analysis: Analyze liquidity risks and potential for manipulation
  3. Oracle Manipulation Detection: Detect oracle manipulation vulnerabilities
  4. MEV Analysis: Analyze MEV opportunities and risks
  5. Peg Stability: Analyze stablecoin peg stability mechanisms
  6. Yield Farming Risks: Analyze risks in yield farming and DeFi protocols
  7. Token Economics: Analyze token economic models for vulnerabilities
  8. Market Impact: Assess market impact of potential exploits

Requirements:

  • Build economic modeling engine
  • Implement liquidity analysis algorithms
  • Create oracle manipulation detection
  • Build MEV analysis tools
  • Implement peg stability analysis
  • Create yield farming risk assessment
  • Build token economic analysis
  • Implement market impact modeling
  • Create integration with DeFi data sources
  • Build economic security dashboard

Acceptance Criteria:

  • Detect 80%+ of economic vulnerabilities
  • Liquidity analysis identifies 90%+ of manipulation risks
  • Oracle manipulation detection accuracy >85%
  • MEV analysis identifies profitable opportunities
  • Peg stability analysis predicts depegging events
  • Integration with existing ChainProof workflow
  • Economic security dashboard is comprehensive

Difficulty: High - Requires financial expertise, DeFi knowledge, economic modeling


Maintainer Scope Upgrade

This issue is being expanded into a substantial, production-quality ChainProof enhancement. The implementation should be designed as maintainable platform work, not as a narrow proof of concept. A successful pull request must provide a cohesive user-facing capability, typed internal APIs, robust tests, documentation, and CI-safe behavior.

Expanded Objective

Add economic security analysis for protocol invariants, asset flows, and manipulation risks. The feature should fit the existing monorepo architecture, reuse current scanner/report/CLI patterns where appropriate, and avoid introducing ad hoc subsystems that are difficult to test or maintain.

Required Implementation Depth

This issue is intentionally scoped to require more than 700 lines of meaningful implementation work. The line count expectation applies to purposeful source, tests, fixtures, and documentation that are necessary to deliver the feature. It must not be satisfied through generated output, lockfile churn, formatting-only changes, duplicated boilerplate, or artificial padding.

Expected work includes:

  • Heuristics for collateralization, pricing, liquidity, accounting invariants, and value-transfer concentration.
  • Fixtures modeling vaults, AMMs, lending flows, and unsafe oracle assumptions.
  • Risk scoring and reports that separate economic design risks from code-level bugs.
  • Public or internal types/interfaces where they clarify behavior and reduce future integration risk.
  • Failure-mode handling for invalid input, missing configuration, unavailable optional dependencies, and degraded execution paths.
  • Documentation updates that explain how maintainers and users should operate the new capability in local and CI environments.

Professional Quality Bar

The implementation must be production-ready and reviewable in isolation. Contributors should include clear separation between parsing, analysis, reporting, CLI/action integration, and persistence or provider code where those concerns apply. The code should follow existing ChainProof conventions, keep behavior deterministic in tests, and avoid coupling core analysis to network-only services unless explicitly optional and mocked.

Acceptance Criteria

  • The delivered PR contains more than 700 meaningful lines of implementation across source, tests, fixtures, and docs, excluding generated files and lockfile-only changes.
  • The feature is integrated into the relevant package entrypoints, CLI commands, report formats, GitHub Action behavior, or documentation as appropriate for this issue.
  • Unit tests cover normal operation, edge cases, invalid inputs, and at least one realistic fixture or end-to-end workflow.
  • Any optional external service, model provider, database, or platform integration has deterministic mocks or fallbacks so CI does not depend on secrets or network availability.
  • User-facing output is documented and stable enough for downstream automation.
  • Backward compatibility is preserved unless the PR explicitly documents a migration path and the maintainer approves it.

Mandatory CI and Merge Requirements

A PR resolving this issue must not be merged until all repository CI checks pass. At minimum, reviewers should verify the following from a clean checkout:

  • npm ci
  • npm run lint
  • npm run build --workspaces --if-present
  • npm run test:ci --workspace=packages/core
  • npm test --workspaces --if-present
  • npm run build --workspace=packages/core && npm run docs --workspace=packages/core
  • Any package-specific tests, examples, validators, or integration checks introduced by the PR

If the PR adds a GitHub Action, report format, dashboard, persistence layer, or external integration, it must also include CI coverage or a documented local verification command for that path. Known warnings are acceptable only when they are documented and do not hide failures.

Review Expectations

Reviewers should reject PRs that only stub APIs, add superficial wrappers, omit tests for critical behavior, rely on live secrets in CI, or meet the line-count target through non-functional bulk changes. The preferred solution is a focused but complete vertical slice that leaves ChainProof more reliable, easier to operate, and easier to extend.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    GrantFox OSSIssue tracked in GrantFox OSSMaybe RewardedIssue may be eligible for a GrantFox rewardThird CampaignCampaign: Third Campaign

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions