- CredShields will integrate audits and vulnerability scanning directly into Web3Payments’ presale and staking infrastructure, covering more than $750 million already raised.
- The roadmap includes a dashboard API and SDK for pre-audit scans, compliance alignment, and education tracks to improve founder readiness for secure token launches.
CredShields, a smart contract security firm, has entered a strategic partnership with Web3Payments, the non-custodial platform for multi-chain token launches and presales. The integration is designed to embed audits and continuous vulnerability detection into the presale workflow, adding a standardized security and compliance layer at the point where projects move from test deployments to fundraising.
Security by design in the presale funnel
Under the agreement, projects launching through Web3Payments will be able to initiate CredShields’ audit process and automated scans from inside the Web3Payments dashboard. The stack combines static and dynamic analyzers with expert manual review, producing presale-ready reports that speak to buyer due diligence and platform listing requirements. CredShields says its processes map to widely recognized frameworks, including ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and OWASP, helping teams align documentation before capital intake and token distribution.
Founders will receive a repeatable path: pre-audit scans during testnet and staging, formal audits ahead of the token generation event, and post-launch monitoring for upgrades, vesting contracts, and staking modules. The partners plan an API and SDK so teams can run pre-flight checks programmatically, attach artifacts to investor updates, and share proof-of-fix for identified issues. Education initiatives are also planned to guide first-time issuers through secure presale mechanics, vesting schedules, and permissions management.
“Security and scalability should not be trade-offs,”
said Shashank, Co-founder at CredShields.
“Together with Web3Payments, we are creating a launch experience where founders can focus on growth while we ensure their code and investors remain protected.”
A Web3Payments executive added that the platform’s aim is to reduce friction for fundraising while adding verifiable trust signals at each step of the presale flow.
Controls for staking, vesting, and non-custodial flows
Web3Payments has facilitated more than $750 million in presales and token launches across multiple chains. The partnership extends security controls to staking pools, vesting contracts, and payment modules, areas that have historically been exploited through logic errors, unsafe upgrade paths, or incorrect role configuration. By integrating checks before allocation and settlement, the combined workflow seeks to reduce the likelihood of critical faults reaching production, where remediation becomes expensive and reputationally damaging.
From an investor-relations standpoint, standardized audit artifacts and compliance mappings can help founders respond to institutional checklists covering ownership of deployer keys, upgradeability proxies, role-based access control, oracle dependencies, and external library risks. The partners say the objective is to move presales toward a consistent baseline of verification without imposing custodial constraints on capital flows. Funds remain non-custodial, with audit evidence attached to each stage of the token lifecycle.
The collaboration sets a public target to safeguard more than $1 billion in on-chain fundraising volume by mid-2026. Progress will depend on how effectively the partners operationalize three pillars. First is automation coverage, including support for common frameworks across EVM and emerging chains and the ability to surface exploit-class risks early. Second is founder enablement, with documentation and sandbox environments that shorten audit feedback loops. Third is disclosure quality, so buyers can compare findings, severities, and fixes across launches in a uniform format.
In practice, the integrated checks will be most useful where presales touch multiple interdependent contracts, such as staking with restaking hooks, vesting with cliff and emergency pause logic, and reward distribution that spans several assets. CredShields and Web3Payments expect that a continuous testing cadence and pre-flight proofs will lower the probability of high-severity defects and improve readiness for exchange listings, while preserving the non-custodial character of the fundraising stack.
