blockchain

On Blockchain Voting

Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze: Why…

3 weeks ago

Good idea, bad design: How the Diamond standard falls short

TL;DR: We audited an implementation of the Diamond standard proposal for contract upgradeability and can’t recommend it in its current…

1 month ago

Paper Ballots: More Secure Than E-voting or Blockchain

Voting on paper is best. Letting computers help is bound to lead to trouble, experts say. And using a blockchain…

4 months ago

Intro to Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)

Blockchain? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that bitcoin used to be worthless and now is worth…

4 months ago

Using Echidna to test a smart contract library

In this post, we’ll show you how to test your smart contracts with the Echidna fuzzer. In particular, you’ll see…

4 months ago

Accidentally stepping on a DeFi lego

The initial release of yVault contained logic for computing the price of yUSDC that could be manipulated by an attacker…

4 months ago

Schrodinger’s Cryptocurrency – Both Private and Not

Everyone knows that Bitcoin is an anonymous currency. Except when it isn’t. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies attempt to achieve the…

5 months ago

Contract verification made easier

Smart contract authors can now express security properties in the same language they use to write their code (Solidity) and…

5 months ago

Upgradeable contracts made safer with Crytic

Upgradeable contracts are not as safe as you think. Architectures for upgradeability can be flawed, locking contracts, losing data, or…

6 months ago

Breaking the Solidity Compiler with a Fuzzer

Over the last few months, we’ve been fuzzing solc, the standard Solidity smart contract compiler, and we’ve racked up almost…

6 months ago