Smart Contract Auditing: What I Look For as an Engineer Who Writes Them
Reentrancy, integer overflow, and access control are the classic vulnerabilities. The underappreciated ones — oracle manipulation and front-running — are harder to test for.
Reentrancy, integer overflow, and access control are the classic vulnerabilities. The underappreciated ones — oracle manipulation and front-running — are harder to test for.
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- smart-contracts
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- security
- solidity
- blockchain
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