Verifying a contract costs $5,000. Verifying an agent's output costs $0.005
A human-readable audit of a smart contract costs somewhere between $5,000 and $15,000, and a complex multi-chain protocol can run past $250,000. CertiK, the largest Web3 security auditor, does not publish a rate card at all — the price is a custom quote. Now price the other side of the same question: someone hands you an artifact produced by an AI agent. What does verifying it cost? Today: nothing. You read it and believe it, or you paste it into another chat window and hope. There is no check,
🎯 Vulnerability: Web Security Vulnerability
💡 Defense Fix: Implement strict input validation, contextual output encoding, and enforce least-privilege authorization controls.