Superform is redefining how users interact with yield in DeFi. With a unified interface, modular smart accounts, validator secured vaults, and yield abstraction across chains, it is fast becoming the core infrastructure for onchain wealth.
As a user owned neobank, Superform offers structured access to onchain finance through a fully non custodial and composable system. Its architecture enables seamless deposits, multichain strategy execution, and validator enforced security across hundreds of yield opportunities.
With more than $135 million in total value locked and a growing user base, securing Superform’s infrastructure is critical to maintaining trust, reliability, and operational continuity.
Cantina collaborated with Superform on a comprehensive, multiphase security initiative. This collaboration spanned protocol upgrades, validator-secured architecture, and other critical areas. It exemplifies Superform's industry leadership in establishing rigorous security standards and demonstrates how structured review and open coordination are instrumental in advancing the maturity of infrastructure-layer DeFi systems.
Superform’s Architecture Requires Enforcement-Grade Security
Superform is not a monolithic app. It is a modular protocol composed of smart accounts, hooks, vault primitives, validator secured price enforcement, and yield distribution logic. It allows users to:
- Deploy into structured products like SuperVaults
- Chain actions across bridge, swap, lend, and deposit in a single signature
- Manage strategies that span multiple chains, token flows, and risk tiers
The organization supports:
Hooks: Lightweight, composable contracts that encode strategy logic and perform actions like swapping, staking, and bridging. Hooks are executed atomically and validated using dual Merkle root verification.
SuperVaults: ERC7540 vaults that handle synchronous deposits and asynchronous redemptions. They are managed by strategists and validated by a decentralized set of bonded validators.
Smart Accounts: Every user operates through ERC7579 smart accounts, enabling gas abstraction, passkey login, and session key control.
PPS Integrity: Pricepershare is calculated offchain by validators, signed cryptographically, and submitted onchain through oracles with circuit breaker protections.
This structure provides composability, abstraction, and high user control but also introduces multiple surfaces for enforcement, coordination, and lifecycle correctness. Superform’s team approached security not as a final checklist but as an embedded process.
The full documentation is available on Superform’s website.
Cantina’s Role in Validating Superform’s Infrastructure
Cantina supported Superform through multiple public facing and targeted security campaigns designed to test infrastructure resilience and validator enforced logic under real world usage.
Multi Phase Competition Review
Cantina collaborated with Superform on several structured reviews:
Superform Periphery (v2): A targeted review in July 2025 of the peripheral infrastructure, ensuring correctness in utility functions and integrations around vault interactions and external contract coordination.
Superform Core (v2): A large scale review of the modular core powering yield abstraction, hook composition, and vault interactions.
ERC1155A Extension: A focused review of Superform’s ERC1155A implementation, tested for correctness, upgrade safety, and compatibility across multitoken usage.
Superform Core and ERC1155A v1 Review: The very first competition held in December 2023 covering Superform v1’s core infrastructure and ERC1155A extension. This foundational engagement helped shape the initial assumptions, vault logic, and yield architecture design.
CTF-Style Exploit Engagement: A novel CTF campaign invited researchers to exploit Superform’s infrastructure across Avalanche, Polygon, and BNB. Researchers were incentivized to drain test vaults in live conditions, simulating real attacks across vault logic, bridge flows, and multichain messaging.
These efforts demonstrated Superform’s willingness to validate its infrastructure at scale.
Review of Hook-Based Execution and Vault Coordination
Cantina engaged with Superform’s hookbased strategy architecture to validate how composable transaction chains maintain safety, correctness, and slippage guarantees. This included:
- Execution validation for hook chains
- Merkle proof enforcement for global and strategy specific roots
- PPS simulation and validator signature modeling
- Vault lifecycle safety across deposits, redemptions, and fee logic
Superform’s hook execution model provides exceptional flexibility, and the layered validation approach helps ensure that vaults cannot be manipulated or misconfigured without triggering enforcement conditions.
Security as an Embedded Component
Superform’s security model is designed to evolve with its infrastructure. Rather than isolated audits, the organization activated public competition reviews, exploit based challenges, validator simulations, and multiphase release preparedness.
This includes:
- Validator bonding and slashing design
- Circuit breakers for price updates
- Guardian veto mechanisms on hook roots
- Emergency withdrawal protection with enforced timelocks
- Timelocked strategist controls for strategy updates, fees, and access roles
Superform’s approach reflects an operational security mindset: designing for recovery, correctness, and user safety as the protocol scales.
Supporting the Future of Onchain Wealth
As Superform expands into mobile, launches the $UP governance token, and continues onboarding users into smart accounts and validator-secured products, the infrastructure needs to meet the expectations of a growing and diverse user base.
Cantina’s work with Superform reflects how structured validation can support:
- Crosschain composability with economic guarantees
- Yield abstraction through validatorsecured primitives
- Infrastructure modularity with hookbased logic
- Validator decentralization with enforcement-grade integrity
Superform’s roadmap includes SuperVaults v2, SuperAsset governance, mobile expansion, and broader validator bonding. Each of these surfaces introduces new coordination logic and enforcement needs. Security is not an endpoint, it is a system design property.
What Comes Next for Validator Infrastructure
Superform represents the next generation of infrastructure led DeFi. The modularity, enforcement logic, and validator powered assurance model position it as a foundational layer for yield across chains.
Cantina is proud to support organizations building with this level of execution and readiness. To scope a review or program with Cantina, contact our team.