smart contracts
Formal Methods for Stellar DeFi: Verifying Lending Protocol with Certora Sunbeam Prover
Hello! My name is Kirill Ziborov, and I’m a formal verification engineer and security researcher at Positive Web3. From February 24 to March 18, an audit contest for the Blend protocol on ...
Formal verification of smart contracts in the ConCert framework
Hey! My name’s Kirill Ziborov and I’m a member of the Positive Web3 Team. In this article, I would like to discuss methods and tools for the formal verification of smart contracts ...
Squarespace Hacked — DeFi Wallets Drained (Imaginary Money Stolen)
DeFAIL: Cryptocurrency fans lose their worthless tokens via phishing attacks on decentralized finance sites ...
Web3 Security: Safeguarding Assets and Data Privacy
Introduction Technological advancements reshape daily life and redefine digital interactions. Among these technological swifts, Web3 Security has stood out as a game-changer. It is promising a decentralized future and revolutionizing how we ...
Web3 Trust Dependencies: A Closer Look at Development Frameworks & Tools
In the world of headline-grabbing smart contract exploits, developers and other stakeholders often skew their security attention in one direction; namely, they tend to focus on on-chain code, yet often neglect framework ...
The Economy of Trust in Smart Contract Security
As blockchain and crypto technology transitions from experimental to mainstream, the importance of top-tier security is becoming increasingly relevant. As we discussed in a recent post, organizations are grappling with the fact ...
FAIL: Nomad DeFi Bridge ‘Loses’ $190M of Worthless Tokens
Cryptocurrency startup Nomad claimed its “optimistic bridging” protocol would “would keep users’ funds safe.” We take a closer look ...
Efficient audits with machine learning and Slither-simil
by Sina Pilehchiha, Concordia University Trail of Bits has manually curated a wealth of data—years of security assessment reports—and now we’re exploring how to use this data to make the smart contract ...
Blockchain: Revolutionizing the Technology Industry or Just Hype?
Integrity assurance that a piece of a binary is not modified, whether it is related to data or software, remains a significant challenge in the IT industry. Integrity assurance is built into ...

