Five Checks That Tell You Whether a Protocol Is Telling the Truth
Most protocol write-ups have the same defect: they describe a system as its authors wish it worked, and the reader has no way to separate what is implemented from what is documented from what is aspiration wearing the present tense.
You can do better than trusting the write-up, and it takes an afternoon rather than an audit budget. What follows is a procedure. It works on any protocol, and the interesting part is not the checks themselves. It is what the gaps between them tell you.
The Procedure
1. Read the documentation for mechanisms, not adjectives. Find the protocol’s own docs and write down every concrete mechanism it claims: thresholds, signer counts, token behaviours, routing rules. Ignore everything with no testable content, such as “battle-tested”, “industry-leading” or “secure by design”. You are building a list of statements that could, in principle, be false.
2. Check each mechanism against a primary...
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