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When to Use This Pattern

Enforces a critical ERC4626 vault invariant: total shares must never exceed total assets converted to shares, preventing share price manipulation and fund loss. Critical for yield aggregators, lending protocols implementing ERC4626, liquidity pools using ERC4626 for LP tokens, and staking protocols with ERC4626 vaults. Any violation could allow unauthorized share minting that dilutes existing holders or enables withdrawal of more assets than deposited, potentially leading to protocol insolvency.

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What This Pattern Checks

Verifies the fundamental ERC4626 share-to-asset relationship using a basic approach:
  • registerStorageChangeTrigger(): Trigger when total supply storage slot changes
  • Verify total assets are sufficient to back all outstanding shares
  • Ensure share value is preserved and users can withdraw their assets
This ensures there are always enough assets to back all shares, maintaining accurate share values and preventing value extraction from the vault. For more information about cheatcodes, see the Cheatcodes Documentation.

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Assertion Pattern

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.13;

import {Assertion} from "credible-std/Assertion.sol";
import {PhEvm} from "credible-std/PhEvm.sol";

contract ERC4626AssetsSharesAssertion is Assertion {
    function triggers() external view override {
        // Register trigger specifically for changes to the total supply storage slot
        registerStorageChangeTrigger(
            this.assertionAssetsShares.selector,
            bytes32(uint256(1)) // Total supply storage slot
        );
    }

    // Assert that the total assets are sufficient to back all shares
    function assertionAssetsShares() external view {
        // Get the assertion adopter address
        IERC4626 adopter = IERC4626(ph.getAssertionAdopter());

        uint256 totalAssets = adopter.totalAssets();
        uint256 totalSupply = adopter.totalSupply();

        // Calculate how many assets are needed to back all shares
        uint256 requiredAssets = adopter.convertToAssets(totalSupply);

        // The total assets should be at least what's needed to back all shares
        require(totalAssets >= requiredAssets, "Not enough assets to back all shares");
    }
}

interface IERC4626 {
    function totalAssets() external view returns (uint256);
    function totalSupply() external view returns (uint256);
    function convertToShares(uint256 assets) external view returns (uint256);
    function convertToAssets(uint256 shares) external view returns (uint256);
}
Full examples with tests available in the Phylax Assertion Examples Repository.