PAL Community Report 2025 / Q3
Date: 30.12.2025
This Community report summarizes the activity of the Polkadot Assurance Legion (PAL) during the period July-September 2025.
PAL
The Polkadot Assurance Legion (PAL) is a community-driven initiative that aims to make Polkadot a safer and more attractive place for both builders and users by allocating funds from the Polkadot Treasury (bounty #22) to advance security in Rust / Polkadot SDK.
PAL provides funding for audits (Rust and Solidity), security tooling, bug bounties, and common-good security initiatives. Find out more about the various funding opportunities on PAL’s homepage.
Summary
In the period of March through May 2025, PAL provided funding for 6 audits, enabling 5 different teams to ship secure code. This helped discover more than 33 vulnerabilities, 12 of which classified as high-risk.
The highlight of Q3 was the choice of Ocelloids as vendor for the development of a comprehensive ecosystem monitoring tool. This milestone marked the end of a nearly 4-month long process during which 14 different submissions were received and vetted. With a resulting shortlist of 4 projects consisting both of big names and smaller vendors, and following an intense, multi-faceted discussion among the curators, Ocelloids was selected for their deep knowledge of the ecosystem, excellent track-record and solid technical approach.
Spending breakdown:
| What | How much |
|---|---|
| Audits | 52,584 DOT |
| Curator salaries | 13,379 DOT |
| Total | 65,963 DOT |
Overview
Audits
| ID | Audit | Co-funded | LOC | Critical | High | Med | Low | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 15 | guvenkaya-virto-2507 guvenkaya-virto-part2-2507 | 2,919 DOT 2,425 DOT | 1,269 LOC | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | Report |
| 22 | audit-xcavate-srlabs-2508 | 17,523 DOT | 11,000 LOC | 0 | 10 | 10 | 6 | Report |
| 23 | audit-moonbeam-srlabs-2508 | 23,365 DOT | 11,000 LOC | ? | ? | ? | ? | TBA |
| 24 | audit-neuroweb-srlabs-2508 | 2,629 DOT | 850 LOC | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | Report |
| 31 | audit-bifrost-beosin-2509 | 3,220 DOT | 2,000 LOC | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Report |
| 32 | audit-sc-bifrost-beosin-2509 | 503 DOT | 1,800 LOC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Report |
Other
The PAL curators have received in total 13,379 DOT as remuneration for their work. This corresponds to $3,000 per curator per month, using the 7d EMA DOT price.