Secure Important Tokens Contracts

Some tokens are so critical to your operations that any weakness in them can directly affect your business and your clients. Whether these tokens are issued by you or form a core dependency, issues such as mint/burn bugs, bridge imbalances, or oracle failures can cascade into major losses and reputational damage.

This Surface Guide helps you stay aware of ecosystem-wide risks tied to such tokens and proactively monitor their integrity and stability.

Key risks to monitor:

• Malicious Exploits → cyber or governance attacks targeting the token or its supporting infrastructure.

• Supply Integrity → unexpected inflation or deflation through minting, burning, or accounting errors.

• Peg Stability → deviations from expected value ranges for pegged or staked tokens.

• Holders Changes → large whale movements or unhealthy concentration of supply.

• External Dependencies → failures in bridges, oracles, or other vendors that impact the token’s operation.

Recommended Setup

Create Tags for Token Contracts

Create a tag such as “My Token Contracts.” Add all official token contract addresses across every chain where the token exists. Tags let you scope monitors consistently and ensure that your coverage spans all wrapped or bridged versions in the ecosystem.

Threat Monitoring

Set up Threat Monitors powered by IntelliGate threat intelligence to surface attacks against your token contracts.

• Cyber Threats → suspicious contracts interacting with your token, exploit patterns.

• Governance Threats → role changes, ownership transfers, proxy upgrades.

Use Critical severity for these, and route to your incident-response notification channel.

Supply Monitoring

Detect unexpected inflation or deflation in your token supply. Use the Sample Function monitor with the totalSupply() function.

• Apply the monitor/s across all chains where the token exists to ensure complete coverage.

• For deeper protection, set up multiple conditions (e.g., >5% in 10 minutes, >20% in 1 hour).

  

External Dependencies - Optional

Many issued tokens rely on bridges, oracles, or custodial vendors. Use monitors from other Surface Guides (e.g., Bridges, Oracles) to ensure your token remains safe when those systems malfunction.

• Example → monitor bridge balances to confirm that wrapped versions of your token remain properly backed.

• Example → monitor Oracle feeds if your token price is secured by external data.