What is an audit?

[Cindy]

English is not my native language (working with @Gearlad), so this post is especially useful for me.

@lnrdpss

In the crypto space, audits have largely focused on security, with their primary goal being to assess correctness (with respect to a specification), as well as to identify potential vulnerabilities in implemented code.

So, in a nutshell, an audit in the context of the blockchain is a security/correctness checker for the entire blockchain system. What would be an example specification? Are there any cases in which auditing refers to non-security topics in the context of blockchain?