Define the product surface
A DeFi launch is not only a contract deployment. The team must define user journeys, supported wallets, target chains, contract addresses, frontend routes, admin roles, pricing or oracle assumptions, and the external services required for the product to work.
Lock the review target
Before security review, freeze the repository commit, compiler versions, environment variables, deployment scripts, and contract inventory. If the target changes during review, the final report and release evidence become difficult to trust.
Prepare admin and emergency controls
Document multisigs, timelocks, pausers, fee setters, upgrade authorities, reward managers, and treasury roles. Each role should have a launch owner, backup process, and revocation or transfer plan.
Monitor the full transaction path
Track wallet connection, transaction preparation, signature, submission, confirmation, indexing, and UI state update. Operators need dashboards that separate chain truth from derived application state.
Accept with evidence
A launch package should include audit status, test output, deployment receipts, verified sources, final role assignments, monitoring links, incident runbooks, and support escalation channels.