Audit firm tier

Hyperlane's assessment for RD-F-005 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Trail of Bits (Tier-1 per taxonomy) audited EVM V3 core contracts. Zellic (Tier-1 per taxonomy) audited Starknet implementation. ChainLight is Tier-2. Sec3 is Tier-2 (Solana security specialist). Score: green (at least one Tier-1 audit of deployed EVM code).

Sources #

Docs
Hyperlane Audits — Official Documentation (Zellic Starknet entry)Zellic Starknet audit listed on official audit pageretrieved 2026-05-17
URL
Hyperlane V3 Security Assessment — Trail of Bits, November 6, 2023Trail of Bits EVM V3 audit summary report November 2023retrieved 2026-05-17

Methodology #

Classify each auditing firm into: Tier-1 (Trail of Bits / OpenZeppelin / ConsenSys Diligence / Certora / Sigma Prime / Spearbit / Zellic) / Tier-2 (established, named firm with public track record) / boutique / unknown.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol hyperlane factor RD-F-005 score green collected_at 2026-05-16 23:03:56