Set the rules for onchain finance with technical evidence behind them
Regulation and standards for stablecoins, tokenized assets, and digital asset infrastructure are being written now. OpenZeppelin contributes open standards, reference implementations, and security research grounded in a decade of production experience, so the rules reflect how these systems actually work and fail.
Trusted by leading financial institutions and blockchain protocols
Rules for onchain finance are only as strong as their technical assumptions
- $300B+
- in stablecoins in circulation
- $38B+
- in tokenized real-world assets onchain
- $3.4B
- lost to onchain exploits in 2025
Sources: rwa.xyz (Sept 2026); Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report.
Stablecoin regimes, tokenization frameworks, operational resilience rules, and security standards for digital assets are being drafted and implemented across major jurisdictions. Each depends on technical assumptions: what a smart contract can guarantee, where keys and admin powers concentrate risk, how failures propagate across chains, and what can be verified onchain. When those assumptions are wrong, rules can miss the risks that matter, or impose controls that add cost without adding safety.
Get the technical foundations right, and the rules protect what they were written to protect.
How a rule defines issuance, custody, control, or finality determines which systems fall in scope and what they must do. Technical precision at drafting stage prevents gaps that are hard to close once obligations take effect.
Security and interoperability standards gain adoption when they reflect how production systems are engineered. Drafted without implementation experience, they risk being unworkable for industry, or silent on the failure modes that matter.
Onchain systems span jurisdictions, networks, and intermediaries by default. Supervisory approaches have to account for bridges, multichain deployments, and third-party dependencies that no single jurisdiction fully controls.
New networks, AI-driven development, and new cryptographic techniques change the risk landscape faster than rulemaking cycles. Frameworks need a way to stay current after they are published.
Where OpenZeppelin contributes across the rulemaking and standards lifecycle
From consultation to implementation and supervision, here is where OpenZeppelin contributes technical expertise.
- Technical Standards Development
Co-author standards grounded in production experience
- We contribute to security and interoperability standards through ISO, the Blockchain Security Standards Council, the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, and author token and messaging standards the industry implements, including ERC-7984 (co-authored with Zama) and ERC-7786.
- Reference Implementations for Compliance-by-Design
Show how requirements translate into code
- We help frameworks specify controls that can be implemented and verified onchain, such as transfer restrictions, freeze and recovery, and role separation, and publish open-source reference implementations that demonstrate each requirement working in code.
- Consultation & Policy Input
Give rulemakers neutral technical evidence
- We respond to consultations and brief policy teams with neutral analysis of how stablecoins, tokenized assets, and onchain infrastructure behave, including where risk concentrates. OpenZeppelin engages with policymakers across major jurisdictions, including the U.S. Treasury, SEC, UK FCA, and French ACPR/AMF.
- Supervisory Training & Enablement
Strengthen supervisory fluency in smart contract risk
- Training for supervisory, examination, and policy staff on smart contract, key-management, and cross-chain risk, drawn from 900+ security engagements and 10,000+ vulnerabilities surfaced, so examination teams know what to look for and what good looks like.
- Security Research & Threat Landscape
Understand how onchain systems fail
- Our research team publishes analysis of vulnerability classes, incidents, and emerging risk, including AI-driven development, giving regulators and standards bodies a current, evidence-based view of the threat landscape.
Across all of the above
Neutral Technical Counsel- OpenZeppelin works across networks, financial institutions, and crypto-native companies, and contributes to public bodies on a neutral technical basis, without favoring any network, standard, or vendor.
“Bringing regulated funds onchain means security and compliance have to be inseparable, and they have to hold across every environment we build on. OpenZeppelin has been a continuous partner from architecture through deployment, across both our Ethereum and Solana work, and this consistency and rigor allows us to advance WisdomTree’s tokenization roadmap confidently, at scale.”
“Huge thanks to OpenZeppelin for being a great partner during the security audit — their expertise and constant support were invaluable for the entire engagement.”
Technical input at every stage, from first draft to live supervision
Rules and standards move through research, drafting, implementation, and supervision, and each stage raises different technical questions. OpenZeppelin researchers and engineers contribute across all four, scaled by OpenZeppelin AI.
Validate the design before code is written
- Architecture Review
- Threat Modeling
- Standards & Regulatory Review
- Governance Design
- Cryptographic Design Review
- Applied Research
Reach production with secure foundations
- Blockchain Library Development
- Custom Platform & Solution Development
- Reference Implementations
- Standards Development
Catch vulnerabilities across code, infrastructure, and operations
- Smart Contract Security Audit
- Blockchain Infrastructure Audit
- Zero-Knowledge Proof Audit
- Technical Risk Assessment (TRA)
- Penetration Testing
- Operational Security Assessment
- Deployment Verification
Keep production systems secure over time
- Continuous Support & Maintenance
- Dedicated Blockchain Architect
- Custom Monitoring Solution
- Security Training & Enablement
Contributions structured around your mandate
From a single consultation briefing to ongoing working-group participation, we structure our contributions around your mandate, timelines, and governance requirements.
The standards behind the assets your rules will govern
The stablecoins and tokenized funds coming into scope of new rules largely run on the same open code. The libraries behind 9 of the top 10 stablecoins and 10 of the top 10 tokenized money market funds by market cap are OpenZeppelin Contracts, giving OpenZeppelin a direct view of how the assets in scope are engineered.
Every engagement pairs OpenZeppelin researchers and engineers with OpenZeppelin AI, with risk assessment and monitoring running throughout, so issues surface early, while they are still cheap to fix.
9 of the top 10 stablecoins
by market cap build on OpenZeppelin Contracts
10 of the top 10 tokenized money market funds
by market cap build on OpenZeppelin Contracts
