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Evaluation of Tools for Analyzing Smart Contracts in Distributed Ledger Technologies

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Despite the fact that the extent of interest in distributed ledger technologies has slightly decreased after the peak of Bitcoin popularity this area continues to evolve. One of the popular areas is the development of smart contracts which introduces a new paradigm of writing programs. This inflicts additional difficulties associated primarily with the high costs of error. This paper reviews the typical vulnerabilities that are widespread during development in the Solidity language. It also presents an analysis of existing tools to help identify software bugs. It is shown that there is no universal technique at the moment and if the risks are high, one should not solely check the code with available instruments but also conduct a manual audit with help of an expert.

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    There was a well known incident with The DAO when about $ 50 million was stolen due to a program error.

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    National University of Singapore.

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  1. Saint-Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Denis Kirillov, Oleg Iakushkin, Vladimir Korkhov & Vadim Petrunin

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  1. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  2. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  4. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Elena Stankova

  5. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Vladimir Korkhov

  6. Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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  7. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  8. Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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  9. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

  10. Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Eufemia Tarantino

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Kirillov, D., Iakushkin, O., Korkhov, V., Petrunin, V. (2019). Evaluation of Tools for Analyzing Smart Contracts in Distributed Ledger Technologies. In: Misra, S., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2019. ICCSA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11620. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24296-1_41

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