Were You Looking for Dedaub? The Correct Spelling
If you landed here after typing something like debaub, dedhub, dedub, deaub, debaud, or dedabu into a search engine, you are in the right place. You were looking for Dedaub, and this page will tell you exactly what it is, why it is spelled that way, and what it can do for you.
The correct spelling is D-E-D-A-U-B
Dedaub (pronounced deh-dawb). Not debaub. Not dedhub. Not debaud.
The name looks unusual because it is not a common English word. It carries a specific technical meaning that precisely describes what the company does.
The six most common misspellings in search data, and what they all map to:
| What you typed | What you meant |
|---|---|
| debaub | Dedaub |
| dedhub | Dedaub |
| dedub | Dedaub |
| deaub | Dedaub |
| debaud | Dedaub |
| dedabu | Dedaub |
All of them lead here.
Where the name comes from
The name splits into two parts.
“De” stands for the commitment to uncovering vulnerabilities in smart contracts, the active, investigative work of finding what is hidden.
“daub” refers to the initial, often concealed state of code, akin to the wattle and daub building technique, in which a rough base layer is plastered over, hiding the underlying structure from view.
Put them together and Dedaub is the process of removing that concealment. It means exposing what lies beneath the surface of a smart contract, the logic errors, the access control gaps, the integer overflows, and the reentrancy paths, before an attacker finds them first.
That is not a metaphor chosen for marketing. It is a precise technical description of what the firm’s researchers do on every engagement.
What Dedaub actually is
Dedaub is a Web3 security firm that provides smart contract audits, vulnerability detection, onchain transaction monitoring, and contract decompilation technology to help projects launch safely. It is based in Malta, founded by Dr. Neville Grech and Prof. Yannis Smaragdakis.
Dr. Grech is a white-hat hacker with 15 years in software engineering, security, and program analysis, and is the lead author of MadMax. Prof. Smaragdakis brings 20 years of world-leading research in program analysis, systems, and security, along with several industry and open-source contributions.
Most of the team holds relevant PhDs. The firm’s approach combines formal academic methodology with hands-on hacker instinct, two things that rarely coexist at the same security shop.
The numbers: 300+ audits, 160+ public reports, $70B+ in assets managed by audited code, 80+ clients, and 30+ chains.
Clients who trust the de-daubing process
Dedaub’s public audit report library includes the Ethereum Foundation, Chainlink, EigenLayer, LayerZero, Lido, Pendle, Liquity, and 0x, among others, across DeFi, L2, bridge, and restaking verticals.
The full public report library is at dedaub.com/audits.
What Dedaub offers: services and the Security Suite
Dedaub is not an audit-only firm. Its work splits into two arms: expert-led security services, and the Security Suite, the data platform that these services and their customers run on.
Services
Smart Contract Audits. Manual review by senior researchers, backed by Dedaub’s own vulnerability detection (100+ proprietary algorithms) and custom fuzzers built per protocol. Coverage includes architecture review, MEV and oracle risk, gas optimization, and invariant testing.
Focused Expertise. Specialized consultancy for complex protocols: architectural review, risk mitigation (protocol-level risk, MEV exposure, and economic attack vectors), security practice audits, gas fee optimization, and protocol design advisory, with deep domains in perpetuals, zero-knowledge cryptography, and consensus.
The Security Suite
The Security Suite is Dedaub’s platform. It turns large-scale onchain data into a unified, indexed, and queryable intelligence layer, and it has two parts: the dataset, and the apps built on top of it.
The dataset. Three engines continuously populate it. Decompilation turns opaque bytecode into analyzable program structure, vulnerability detection gives every contract a continuously updated risk profile, and transaction analysis turns execution traces into relational data. To date that is roughly 29M contracts decompiled and 16M threats surfaced, with 99.98% coverage of deployed EVM contracts, and the decompiler needs no source code. Available at app.dedaub.com.
The apps. Three applications run on that dataset:
- Dedaub tok{In}. A real-time token safety API that detects malicious tokens before users get burned. It flags supply manipulation (mint, burn, and privileged owner roles), contract kill switches (selfdestruct, pause, and timebomb logic), honeypot mechanics and sell restrictions (transfer guards, trading caps, and blacklists), hidden and modifiable taxes, liquidity and market health, and creator centralization, across all major chains.
- Custom Monitoring. Real-time onchain anomaly detection. Detection agents are written in DedaubQL, Dedaub’s domain-specific query language over decoded block, transaction, log, and token-ledger data, and run across every EVM chain Dedaub indexes, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Binance, Polygon, and Avalanche. Alerts are delivered by webhook and email.
- Immunefi Firewall powered by Dedaub. Real-time onchain protection that blocks malicious smart contract calls before they execute, enforcing security at runtime through a lightweight Solidity modifier.
Start here
If you are new to Dedaub, the Security Suite at app.dedaub.com lets you decompile and inspect any EVM bytecode without requiring source code.
If you need an audit: dedaub.com/form/request-an-audit
Dedaub Limited, Malta Life Sciences Park, San Gwann SGN 3000, Malta. Company no. C99606.