Blockchain has recently emerged as a research trend, with potential applications in a broad
range of industries and context. One particular successful Blockchain technology is smart …

Smart contracts are regarded as one of the most promising and appealing notions in
blockchain technology. Their self-enforcing and event-driven features make some online …

Given the central role that C continues to play in systems software, and the difficulty of
writing safe and correct C code, it remains a grand challenge to develop effective formal …

In recent years, we have seen a great deal of both academic and practical interest in the
topic of vulnerabilities in smart contracts, particularly those developed for the Ethereum …

Smart contracts are programs that run on the blockchain and digitally enforce the execution
of contracts between parties. Because bugs in smart contracts can have serious monetary …

This paper presents a novel formal semantics, mechanized in Coq, for a large, sequential
subset of the LLVM IR. In contrast to previous approaches, which use relationally-specified …

Rust is a relatively new programming language that has gained significant traction since its
v1. 0 release in 2015. Rust aims to be a systems language that competes with C/C++. A …

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a new bytecode language supported by all major Web browsers,
designed primarily to be an efficient compilation target for low-level languages such as …

We propose a new design for a Translation Validation (TV) system geared towards practical
use with modern optimizing compilers, such as LLVM. Unlike existing TV systems, which are …

Smart contracts are programs, usually automating legal agreements such as financial
transactions. Thus, bugs in smart contracts can lead to large financial losses. For example …