WAYF is a Solidity Development Agency:
Smart Contracts. Serious Stakes.

The most common pattern: treating smart contracts like web applications. Move fast, iterate in production, fix bugs with deploys. This mentality has cost protocols hundreds of millions of dollars. Smart contract development requires a different mindset—closer to aerospace engineering than web development.

We also see protocols skip audits or treat them as checkboxes. An audit from a reputable firm takes weeks, costs significant money, and often reveals issues that require substantial rework. Teams that budget neither the time nor the money end up with false confidence.

Another pattern: excessive complexity. Every line of Solidity is attack surface. Gas optimization that obscures logic, clever patterns that auditors struggle to verify, architecture that's sophisticated beyond what the problem requires. Simple contracts with clear logic are easier to secure. We push for simplicity.

We also see teams misunderstand upgradability. Proxy patterns solve the immutability problem but introduce trust assumptions—whoever controls the upgrade key controls the protocol. For some applications, that tradeoff is fine. For "decentralized" protocols, it undermines the entire value proposition. We help teams think through these implications.

We're not here to criticize how protocols got where they are. Market pressure, limited budgets, and genuine uncertainty all contribute. We assess what exists, identify the risks, and figure out the safest path forward.