OpenZeppelin Contracts

Security Center
Last updated: August 19th, 2026

Since the early days of Solidity in 2016, OpenZeppelin Contracts has been the go-to library for smart contract development. Today it is used by everyone from development teams of the largest projects transacting billions of dollars each day to individuals building blockchain applications.

In addition to keeping Contracts safe with our best-in-class suite of practices, our security process allow us to test and showcase our internal audit practices and provide a reference example for other security-minded crypto companies.

If you believe you have discovered a security vulnerability in an OpenZeppelin library, please follow instructions here to file a report.

If you need technical support or audit services, please visit the community forum or get in touch with our security services team.

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Latest version is 5.6.1
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Weekly NPM Downloads: 855,393
GitHub Stars: 27.2k
Dependent Repos: 309,763
Contributors: 576
License: MIT
On-chain Usage
Best estimates
Total Value Locked in OpenZeppelin Contracts
$125.9B
Total Value Transferred
$37.07T
Total ERC20 Transfers
3.73B
Active Wallets Interacting with OpenZeppelin Contracts
441M