UFarm.Digital contributed to Hacken's 2025 Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) Maturity Survey — an industry-wide benchmarking effort covering DeFi protocols, exchanges, infrastructure providers, and wallets across the digital assets ecosystem.
The report surveyed real development practices across 20+ organizations. The goal was straightforward: establish an honest baseline for where Web3 security stands today, and where it does not.
The baseline is stronger than expected
Several foundational practices are now widely adopted. 93% of teams monitor production environments. 87% follow Agile development principles. Over 80% use peer code reviews and multifactor authentication for development tooling.
These are meaningful signals. Secure development is becoming standard practice across the ecosystem, not the exception.
The gaps are specific
The clearest risks are concentrated in a few areas.
Nearly half of teams skip security audits on subsequent upgrades — even though upgrades are precisely where risk concentrates: new features, dependency changes, permission modifications. A one-time audit provides a point-in-time view. It does not cover what ships afterward.
Testing maturity follows a similar pattern. Manual testing and unit tests are common at 90% and 77% respectively. Advanced methods lag significantly: fuzz testing at 39%, invariant testing at 32%. One in five teams does not run regression tests, meaning fixes may ship without verification that previous issues remain resolved.
Incident response readiness is another gap. 93% of teams monitor production. Only 50% have a documented response plan — detection capability without a defined recovery process.
What this means for DeFi protocols
The survey reflects a broader pattern: foundational controls are in place, but the practices that protect against upgrades, edge cases, and operational failure are still catching up.
For protocols that manage user capital — where a single vulnerability can result in direct financial loss — the gap between audit frequency and upgrade frequency is the clearest risk vector identified in the data.
UFarm.Digital operates under two independent audits — Decurity (2023) and Hexens (2025) — and runs a live bug bounty program on Remedy. Security infrastructure is part of the protocol's foundation, not an afterthought.
The full Hacken 2025 SSDLC Maturity Survey is worth reading for anyone building or evaluating Web3 infrastructure. The data is specific, the gaps are actionable, and the benchmarks are grounded in real development teams.