Trail of Bits
4.9/5 Founded 2012 Team: 100+ $$$
About
Trail of Bits is a New York-based security research and consulting firm with one of the deepest cryptography practices in the industry. Its team has audited ZK circuits, provers, and protocol implementations across the ecosystem, and its 'Frozen Heart' research disclosed weak Fiat-Shamir vulnerabilities across multiple proof system implementations in 2022. The firm also builds and open-sources ZK security tooling, including the Circomspect static analyzer and the ZKDocs cryptography reference. Nearly all of its public reports are published in a single GitHub repository.
Specialties
zk circuits cryptography circom static analysis protocol review tooling
Supported Chains
circom halo2 zkvm evm generic
Notable Audits
Scroll zkEVM (wave of pre-mainnet circuit audits) Frozen Heart coordinated disclosures (research, 2022)
Turnaround
4-10 weeks
Team Size
100+
Public Reports
Yes
- Last validated
- Jul 2026