CertiK has completed a security audit of Reserve Protocol

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3 min readMay 30, 2019

CertiK has recently completed a security audit of Reserve Protocol, a decentralized stablecoin and digital payment system that scales its supply with demand and is built to maintain 100% on-chain collateral backing.

The Reserve team envisions a decentralized, dollar-independent stablecoin as the future dominant cryptocurrency. Such a currency would mitigate inflation risks associated with unstable sovereign structures and governments, empowering citizens and reducing instability.

Current annual inflation rate of countries with unstable sovereign structures

To ensure the security of the smart contract, Reserve chose CertiK as their exclusive security provider to prepare them for the launch and scaling of their global product. With CertiK, Reserve chose a security partner that could grow along with them and protect their product with both thoroughness and precision.

Here to view the full report.

The Audit Process

The auditing was conducted by CertiK’s team of experienced security engineers and consultants, with deep collaboration from the Reserve team. A detailed inspection was performed upon Reserve’s ERC-20 based Smart Contracts and related documentation and the Audit Report was successfully delivered in 5 business days.

Overall, the team found Reserve’s code design to be effective and well-structured. The audit was conducted utilizing CertiK’s Formal Verification Platform, Static Analysis, and Manual Review. Here are some of the highlights points:

  • The Reserve contract design is clear and straightforward with well-composed test cases backed by documentation. The CertiK team appreciated the professionalism of the Reserve team and the timely responses to feedback.
  • The Reserve smart contracts were tested against both common and uncommon attack vectors. There were no significant vulnerabilities detected by CertiK team.
  • A comprehensive review of Reserve’s economic model was carried out by economists from the CertiK team for estimation of potential market manipulations related to their token. Our report concludes that the Reserve protocols are theoretically sound and the corresponding tokens are very promising in achieving their goal of becoming a stable coin.

CertiK would like to congratulate the Reserve team for passing the rigorous verification process.

About CertiK

CertiK is a blockchain and smart contract verification platform founded by top formal verification experts from Yale and Columbia University. Incubated by Binance Labs, Certik has strategic partnerships with the world’s top crypto exchanges such as Binance, OKEx, and Huobi, as well as Public Chains such as NEO, ICON, and QuarkChain.

CertiK’s formal verification method works differently than traditional testing approaches: rather than working manually, CertiK mathematically proves blockchain ecosystem and smart contracts are hacker-resistant and bug-free at scale. CertiK’s key features include a layer-based decomposition approach, pluggable proof engine, machine-checkable proof objects, certified dApp libraries, and smart labeling.

To request the audit/verification of your smart contracts, please email audit@certik.org or visit certik.org to submit the request.

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To read more articles from CertiK:

CertiK Unveiled: Introduction

CertiK Unveiled: Ecosystem

Official Partnership Between Binance and CertiK

CertiK Has Conducted Successful Audit of Crypto.com

CertiK Has Completed a Security Audit of Celer Project

CertiK Co-founder Receives IBM Blockchain Grant to Further Research on DeepSEA Framework at Columbia University

Ethereum Foundation Awards Grant for DeepSEA Research by CertiK, Yale, and Columbia to Create Safer Smart Contracts

CertiK AutoScan Engine: 53 of the top 500 tokens by market cap were found to have vulnerabilities

CertiK DeepSEA — a Talk by Dr. Vilhelm Sjöberg at ETHIS

Towards Building Trustworthy Blockchain Ecosystems — Ronghui Gu’s Keynote Presentation at NEO DevCon 2019

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