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Why audits shouldn't be used for marketing purposes

Why audits shouldn't be used for marketing purposes

DeFi space is growing strong and steady. TVL is growing even faster, but also the stolen value from DeFi protocols. According to DeFiPulse, the Total Value Locked in DeFi projects is roughly $90.16B. Hacks keep happening even though more projects are getting audited. For me, who audits smart contracts

Why is self-auditing a bad idea?

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Why is self-auditing a bad idea?

While scrolling through Twitter, I stumbled upon this tweet from Ashton Kutcher. > We’re auditing ourselves. We followed the industry standards and haven’t found any glitches. But, we believe we should hold ourselves to higher standards. We learned a lot and are going to write it all up

Do you need to know programming to work as an auditor?

Do you need to know programming to work as an auditor?

Yes . . . . . . I get this question lately a lot. My answer to this is Yes, profound Yes. Without programming knowledge, you wouldn't know what parts of the system to check, how to check them, etc. In Ethereum, you have few options to chose from. Solidity is the most popular

Security should be the number one priority

Security should be the number one priority

Dust didn't settle after the ThorChain was hacked yesterday. It was an interesting hack, but the reason it was possible was due to business decisions. Following last week's hack, Thorchain said it had been audited by multiple blockchain security companies to locate bugs in a given

Replay Mirror Attacks

Replay Mirror Attacks

DeFi is an ever-growing market, and apart from everybody wanting to have a piece of multi-billion dollar industry, there are chains and copycats of protocols found originally on Ethereum. Some of those copycats grew into their respective applications, but also it meant, we have multiple chains we can deploy the

Does salary on remote work should depend on where you live?

Does salary on remote work should depend on where you live?

As everybody on LinkedIn, I get invites and job proposition every so often. Most sound similar i.e., "Join our new exciting DeFi project. We will change how DeFi works!". But one got my attention lately because of one sentence. "As for the salary, the current amount

We're still early

We're still early

Today when I scrolled through twitter I encountered this tweet that got me thinking on two levels. > Gutenberg launched the printing press when 96% of the people in Europe were illiterate That's how it feels to be building in web3/crypto today It's just early

What are the developer's responsibilities due to the hack? Case study based on Impossible Finance hack.

What are the developer's responsibilities due to the hack? Case study based on Impossible Finance hack.

On Jun-21-2021 04:39:07 AM +UTC, Impossible Finance got hacked for $500k using the same exploit as the one used on the BurgerSwap [https://twitter.com/mudit__gupta/status/1398156036574306304?s=21]. The issue was with the swap function supposed to verify if x*y>k, basically the

Why focusing on price is giving a completely wrong overview of the blockchain protocols?

Why focusing on price is giving a completely wrong overview of the blockchain protocols?

Since my early days as a smart contract developer, I was fascinated why people are more focused on the token price than what the token actually offers? The answer is quite simple: people want to get rich, and when they put their savings into the project or cryptocurrency, they want