GRID AUDIT FRAMEWORK

The Trust Audit forAI-Built Applications.

The Grid Audit Framework shows how the GRID VINE MIND SWARM and human reviewers assess real application risk across eight security pillars — covering AI, agentic, Web2, and Web3 surfaces — without publishing the full internal attack playbook behind every engagement.

Security Assessment Pillars

Our methodology blends OWASP, XRPL protocol standards, NIST guidance, CIS hardening, and modern AI security practice to cover the real attack surfaces of Web3, XRPL, and AI-enabled products.

Frontend Security

Client-side behavior, browser trust boundaries, and user-facing attack surface review.

Client-side exposure and trust-boundary review
Browser security control validation
Unsafe rendering and redirect risk assessment
Session and user-flow protection checks
OWASP Top 10OWASP ASVSCSP / Trusted Types

API Security

API and service-layer review focused on authorization, input handling, and exposed integration risk.

Endpoint discovery and exposure mapping
Access-control and authorization review
Input handling and trust-boundary validation
Third-party integration and transport security checks
OWASP API Security Top 10OWASP Top 10BOLA / BOPLA

Infrastructure

Server, hosting, and environment hardening review across exposed infrastructure layers.

Transport, certificate, and header hygiene
Service exposure and configuration review
Administrative surface and hardening checks
Operational dependency and environment-risk analysis
NIST CSFCIS BenchmarksTLS / transport hygiene

Data Protection

Secrets, artifacts, and sensitive data handling review across the live application surface.

Credential and secret exposure review
Build artifact and source leakage checks
Sensitive token and configuration handling
Data exposure pathways across client and server
OWASP CI/CD Top 10SLSA provenanceCISA SBOM-for-AI

Network & Auth

Authentication boundaries, gateway behavior, and network-layer control validation.

Identity, session, and gateway control review
Rate limiting and abuse-resilience validation
Proxy, load balancer, and edge behavior analysis
Network-level exposure and control checks
OWASP Top 10 — Access ControlNIST CSFAbuse resilience

XRPL Protocol

XRPL-specific review of wallet flows, token behavior, transaction safety, and ecosystem-specific trust assumptions.

Wallet, trust, and signing-flow validation
Token and issuer behavior review
Transaction safety and lifecycle checks
Network and environment consistency assessment
XRPL protocol standardsOWASP Smart Contract Top 10Signing-flow safety

AI & Agentic Security

AI, agentic, and rapid-development risk review across prompts, tools, autonomy, and generated output.

Prompt, context, and output safety review
Agent autonomy and tool-permission controls
Model-facing secret and data exposure checks
Rapid-development security debt assessment
OWASP LLM Top 10OWASP Agentic threatsCISA SBOM-for-AI

Transaction Logic

Business-logic and transaction-flow review for critical actions, state changes, and signing assumptions.

Critical workflow and state-transition review
Transaction integrity and signing assumptions
Business-logic abuse-path assessment
High-impact workflow retest validation
OWASP Smart Contract Top 10Business-logic abuseState-transition integrity

Certification Levels

Grid treats certification as a remediation path. We work directly with project teams to fix material vulnerabilities, validate changes, and move toward a public status that can be independently verified.

GRID — CONDITIONAL

Grid Conditional

Review complete with remediation and validation work still in progress.

GRID VERIFIED

Grid Verified

Material findings resolved and verified through the Grid review process.

GRID ELITE

Grid Elite

Exceptional security maturity, operating discipline, and retest performance.

Methodology

What We Review

  • • Public and authenticated application surface behavior
  • • Multi-host portfolio coverage in a single engagement
  • • API, integration, and workflow trust boundaries
  • • Identity, OAuth/OIDC, and account-lifecycle flows
  • • XRPL wallet, signing, and transaction flows
  • • AI, agentic, and rapid-development risk areas
  • • Infrastructure, hardening, and exposure hygiene
  • • CDN, cache, and HTTP-layer hardening
  • • Subdomain enumeration and dangling-DNS exposure
  • • Secrets, artifacts, and sensitive data handling
  • • Supply-chain and third-party dependency exposure
  • • Authentication, authorization, and session controls
  • • Remediation readiness and retest validation paths

What We Don't Check

  • • Destructive or intrusive testing
  • • Social engineering attacks
  • • Physical security assessments
  • • Internal network penetration
  • • Brute force attacks
  • • Denial of service testing
  • • Authenticated review without explicit approval
  • • Third-party financial advice

Important Disclaimer

Grid audit reports are assessments based on the state of the application at the time of review. Security is an ongoing process, and this audit does not guarantee future security.

Grid does not provide financial advice, investment recommendations, or guarantee the absence of all vulnerabilities. This audit focuses on technical security implementation only.

Projects should continue to follow security best practices, monitor for new vulnerabilities, and consider regular re-audits as their applications evolve.

Phase 2 of the Grid platform is designed to let verified projects authorize trusted project agents to interact with the GRID VINE MIND SWARM and initiate on-demand scans as meaningful changes are introduced.

Ready to Secure Your Project?

Start with a Grid review, work through remediation with our team, and move toward a public status your community can verify.