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Dedaub at DeFi Security Summit 2024

Dedaub is proud to sponsor the DeFi Security Summit (DSS) 2024, which will be held from November 7th ...

23 October 2024

Transient Storage in the wild: An impact study on EIP-1153

With the recent introduction of transient storage in Ethereum, the landscape of state management wit ...

22 October 2024

DEDAUB Supports Privacy4Web3 Hackathon

The Privacy4Web3 Hackathon, supported by Oasis Network, is an excellent opportunity for developers t ...

30 September 2024

Bedrock vulnerability disclosure and actions

A few hours ago, the Dedaub team discovered a smart contract vulnerability in a number of uniBTC vau ...

26 September 2024

Dedaub coordinated the Secureum RACE-32

Smart contracts are the underpinning of blockchain technology, and they present unique security chal ...

20 September 2024

Dedaub Named Member of ZKsync Security Council

We’re thrilled to announce that Dedaub is now a member of the ZKsync Security Council. We̵ ...

13 September 2024

Strengthening Legal Protections for White Hat Hackers

White Hat Hackers in the Crosshair As a white hat hacker and educator, I’ve seen first hand how lega ...

12 September 2024

Dedaub at SPLASH 2024

Dedaub is proud to sponsor the SPLASH 2024 conference, helping unite top thinkers in software, progr ...

9 September 2024

Rho Markets Incident

On July 19th, Rho Markets — a Compound V2 fork on Scroll — was involved in an incident that led to t ...

5 September 2024

Web 3 Audit Methodology by Dedaub

Dedaub’s Security Audit teams comprise at least two senior security researchers, as well as any supp ...

4 September 2024

Common Solidity Security Vulnerabilities

Understanding and Mitigating Solidity Security Vulnerabilities Solidity Security Vulnerabilities&nbs ...

27 August 2024

SEAL 911: A Few Lessons from the Frontlines

Today, I’d like to share my personal experience as a member of SEAL 911, the emergency hotline ...

22 August 2024

Dedaub Security Suite Updates Q3-24

Dedaub Security Suite is renowned for its powerful EVM bytecode decompiler, which users have hailed ...

25 July 2024

EIP-3074 Impact Study

Pectra’s EIP-3074, and its Impact on Deployed Smart Contracts Introduction Ethereum’s en ...

3 May 2024

Ethdenver 2024 | Dedaub Showcases Its Web3 Security Technology

Dedaub is excited to participate in ETHDenver 2024. During the conference, Dedaub will showcase its ...

19 February 2024

Dedaub Celebrates Seal’s Public Debut and the Launch of the Safe Harbor Initiative

As a founding collaborator of the Security Alliance (SEAL), Dedaub celebrates SEAL’s public de ...

14 February 2024

Bulk Storage Extraction

Most Dapp developers have heard of and probably use the excellent Multicall contract to bu ...

7 February 2024

Introducing Dedaub Tx Simulator Snap for Metamask

At Dedaub, we have solid expertise in Smart Contract security, which allows us to contribute signifi ...

18 January 2024

Arbitrum Sequencer Outage | Root Cause Analysis

The Arbitrum network experienced significant downtime on December 15 due to problems with its sequen ...

17 December 2023

Thestandard.io Exploit | A Thorough Analysis by Dedaub

Hello everyone, this is Yannis Bollanos, Security Researcher at Dedaub. A few days ago, we published ...

16 December 2023

Transaction Simulation Solutions | An In-depth Guide

Introduction to Transaction Simulation Solutions Transaction simulation tools improve developer and ...

16 December 2023

Web3 Monitoring

Web3 Monitoring continuously tracks blockchain activities, such as transactions and smart contract i ...

16 December 2023

Smart Contracts | Tale of Little Bugs

As most programmers would admit, the most annoying bugs are often the “little” ones. Tin ...

14 December 2023

The Critical Thirdweb Vulnerability

Summary: The root cause of the thirdweb critical vulnerability is that independent libraries im ...

7 December 2023

Smart Contract Audits Guide

Smart Contract Audit Essentials: Navigating the Web 3 Landscape with Expertise and Security With blo ...

2 December 2023

Smart Contract Security Tools | A Guide to Dedaub Security Suite, Step-by-step Tutorial

Dedaub Security Suite (former Watchdog) is not just a tool; it’s a comprehensive security ...

18 October 2023

Platypus Finance Hack

Platypus Finance Hack: The platform was targeted by a flashloan attack, resulting in an approximate ...

12 October 2023

Ethereum improvement proposal 4788 | EIP-4877 Summary

Dedaub was commissioned by the Ethereum Foundation to perform a security audit of the bytecode of a ...

7 October 2023

Ethereum Study – Rlp to Ssz Mpt Commitment Migration

The Ethereum Foundation commissioned our team to examine the potential impact of Ethereum Improvemen ...

6 July 2023

Preparing for Your First Web3 Audit

Your project is at an advanced state of engineering and you have decided to hire an auditor to maxim ...

16 June 2023

EIP-4758 and EIP-6780 | Removal of Selfdestruct

Dedaub was commissioned by the Ethereum Foundation to perform an impact study of Ethereum Improvemen ...

30 May 2023

I See Dead Code

What if I told you that over one-third of recently-deployed Ethereum smart contracts consist mostly ...

11 February 2023

Poly Network Hack Postmortem

On July 2nd, 2023 06:47:20 PM UTC Poly Network suffered what was initially reported to be a notional ...

7 February 2023

Uniswap Reentrancy Vulnerability Disclosure

By the Dedaub team Uniswap Reentrancy | Uniswap Labs recently advertised a boosted $3 ...

16 December 2022

Latent Bugs in Billion-plus Dollar Code

You are probably safe, but be aware… Daniel Von Fange pinged me last week: Hey, I just realized ...

19 April 2022

Mass Disclosure of Griefing Vulnerabilities

This week, with the help of @drdr_zz and @wh01s7 of SecuRing, we tackled a ...

15 April 2022

Rari Capital Vulnerability

Security researchers actively participating in Tribe DAO’s Discord security channel, raised concerns ...

2 April 2022

Elipmoc: Advanced Decompilation of Ethereum SmartContracts

NEVILLE GRECH, University of Malta, Malta and Dedaub LtdSIFIS LAGOUVARDOS, University of Athens, Gre ...

1 April 2022

Elipmoc: Advanced Decompilation of Ethereum Smart Contracts

Smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain greatly benefit from cutting-edge analysis techniques and ...

21 March 2022

The Dedaub Watchdog Service

The Dedaub Watchdog is a technology-driven continuous auditing service for smart contracts ...

28 January 2022

Phantom Functions and the Billion-dollar No-op

By the Dedaub team On Jan. 10 we made a major vulnerability disclosure to the Multich ...

24 January 2022

Etheria | A Six-year-old Solc Riddle

By the Dedaub team The Assignment A few weeks ago, we were approached with a request to wo ...

23 November 2021

Harvest Finance Vulnerability | $200k Bounty

We disclosed a critical bug to Harvest Finance. The contracts in scope held a total of $6.4M in Unis ...

12 November 2021

Symbolic Value-flow Static Analysis of Ethereum Smart Contracts

We present a static analysis approach that combines concrete values and symbolic expressions. This s ...

28 October 2021

Symbolic Value-Flow Static Analysis: Deep, Precise, Complete Modeling of Ethereum Smart Contracts

YANNIS SMARAGDAKIS, University of Athens, GreeceNEVILLE GRECH, University of Malta, MaltaSIFIS LAGOU ...

1 October 2021

Verkle Tree Gas Metering Impact

Dedaub was commissioned by the Ethereum Foundation to investigate the impact of Vitalik Buterin ...

10 August 2021

Yield Skimming: Forcing Bad Swaps on Yield Farming

By the Dedaub team Last week we received bug bounties for disclosing smart contract vulner ...

30 March 2021

R-bounty / Primitive Finance Analysis

Three articles on the Primitive Finance vulnerability disclosure and rescue: ...

18 March 2021

Killing a Bad (Arbitrage) Bot … To Save Its Owner

Following the previous white-hat hacks (1, 2), on contracts flagged by our analysis tools, today we’ ...

11 February 2021

“look Ma’, No Source!” Hacking a Defi Service With No Source Code Available

By the Dedaub team This story describes a cool hack, for over $300K (even nearly $600K, if ...

2 February 2021

Ethereum Pawn Stars: “$5.7m in Hard Assets? Best I Can Do is $2.3m”

Saving DeFi Saver with Static Contract Analysis By the Dedaub team In the complex DeFi pro ...

7 January 2021

Precise Static Modeling of Ethereum “Memory”

SIFIS LAGOUVARDOS, University of Athens, GreeceNEVILLE GRECH, University of Athens, GreeceILIAS TSAT ...

4 November 2020

MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts

AbstractEthereum is a distributed blockchain platform, serving as an ecosystem for smart contracts: ...

4 October 2020

Ethainter: A Smart Contract Security Analyzer for Composite Vulnerabilities

Lexi Brent∗Int’l Computer Science Institute Berkeley, CA, USAlexi@icsi.berkeley.edu Neville GrechUni ...

15 June 2020

Gigahorse: Thorough, Declarative Decompilation of Smart Contracts

Neville GrechUniversity of Athens and University of Malta Greece and Maltame@nevillegrech.com Lexi B ...

4 December 2019

Rising Gas Prices Are Threatening Our Security (No, It’s Not the Saudi Attack)

Mr. Out of gas exception EIP 1884 is set to be implemented into the upcoming Ethereum ‘Istanbul ...

22 September 2019

Gigahorse: Thorough, Declarative Decompilation of Smart Contracts

The rise of smart contract—autonomous applications running on blockchains—has led to a growing numbe ...

25 May 2019

Chronicle of an Attack Foretold

Co-written with Neville Grech In a few hours, an attacker will claim the prize for the first&n ...

27 February 2019