A Survey of Attacks on Ethereum Smart Contracts — Blockchain Academy

Another month has passed, and this month Itay Radotzki, joined forces with Blockchain Academy to speak about A Survey of Attacks on Ethereum Smart Contracts.

For those of you not familiar, this was the 6th event in our ongoing efforts to create a developer community called Blockchain Academy — a community for technologists by technologists looking to learn more about crypto and Blockchain technology.

This talk was targeted for those that missed Leonid Beder’s talk in April on How Not to Destroy Millions in Ethereum Smart Contracts. As you may already know, Ethereum intends to provide a blockchain with a built-in fully fledged Turing-complete programming language that can be used to create smart contracts and it is the most well-known and used framework for smart contracts. Smart contracts are computer programs that can be correctly executed by a network of mutually distrusting nodes, without the need of an external trusted authority and in the talk, Itay showcased the known vulnerabilities and attacks on Ethereum, those that could allow adversaries to steal money or cause other damage. He went through code examples of most of those vulnerabilities and attacks and explained in detail how they could be avoided. See the slides here and watch the video of Itay’s lecture below:

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