Gate Research: Vibe Coding significantly improves blockchain development efficiency, but simultaneously amplifies systemic security risks.

PANews reported on January 16th that a recent report by Gate Research, titled "Vibe Coding: The Cure for Efficiency or the Poison for Security?", shows that in terms of development efficiency, projects using Vibe Coding have significantly shorter overall development cycles than the industry average, and this efficiency improvement has not been accompanied by a synchronous expansion of team size, reflecting the actual effectiveness of tooling and automation in blockchain development. However, in terms of security, empirical results indicate that projects with significantly shorter development cycles are more prone to security incidents in the early stages of deployment; at the same time, contracts with highly similar code structures and a high degree of templateization often have a higher vulnerability density. Once an attack occurs, the economic losses corresponding to high-efficiency projects also exhibit a more concentrated "low-frequency—high-loss" distribution characteristic.

Research indicates that Vibe Coding weakens the engineering characteristics of code comprehension depth and verification strength. In a blockchain environment where "code is an asset," this can amplify the spread of systemic defects, causing single points of logic errors to evolve into structural risks across multiple contract levels. Improved development efficiency must be combined with more rigorous security audits, formal verification, and testing mechanisms to unleash productivity while preventing it from becoming a "hidden risk source" eroding system security.

The report concludes by emphasizing that in the highly sensitive technological environment of blockchain, the real key lies not in whether or not Vibe Coding is used, but in whether the industry can establish a risk constraint and governance framework that matches its pursuit of efficiency.