An overview on smart contracts: Challenges, advances and platforms

Z Zheng, S Xie, HN Dai, W Chen, X Chen… - Future Generation …, 2020 - Elsevier
Smart contract technology is reshaping conventional industry and business processes.
Being embedded in blockchains, smart contracts enable the contractual terms of an …

Smart contract development: Challenges and opportunities

W Zou, D Lo, PS Kochhar, XBD Le, X Xia… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart contract, a term which was originally coined to refer to the automation of legal
contracts in general, has recently seen much interest due to the advent of blockchain …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on blockchain technology and its security

H Guo, X Yu - Blockchain: research and applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Blockchain is a technology that has desirable features of decentralization, autonomy,
integrity, immutability, verification, fault-tolerance, anonymity, auditability, and transparency …

Sok: Decentralized finance (defi) attacks

L Zhou, X Xiong, J Ernstberger… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within just four years, the blockchain-based Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has
accumulated a peak total value locked (TVL) of more than 253 billion USD. This surge in …

A survey on ethereum systems security: Vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses

H Chen, M Pendleton, L Njilla, S Xu - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2020 - dl.acm.org
Blockchain technology is believed by many to be a game changer in many application
domains. While the first generation of blockchain technology (ie, Blockchain 1.0) is almost …

Empirical review of automated analysis tools on 47,587 ethereum smart contracts

T Durieux, JF Ferreira, R Abreu, P Cruz - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Over the last few years, there has been substantial research on automated analysis, testing,
and debugging of Ethereum smart contracts. However, it is not trivial to compare and …

Ethereum smart contract analysis tools: A systematic review

SS Kushwaha, S Joshi, D Singh, M Kaur, HN Lee - Ieee Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain technology and its applications are gaining popularity day by day. It is a ground-
breaking technology that allows users to communicate without the need of a trusted …

Ekiden: A platform for confidentiality-preserving, trustworthy, and performant smart contracts

R Cheng, F Zhang, J Kos, W He… - 2019 IEEE European …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart contracts are applications that execute on blockchains. Today they manage billions of
dollars in value and motivate visionary plans for pervasive blockchain deployment. While …

Ethereum smart contract security research: survey and future research opportunities

Z Wang, H Jin, W Dai, KKR Choo, D Zou - Frontiers of Computer Science, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Understanding ethereum via graph analysis

T Chen, Z Li, Y Zhu, J Chen, X Luo, JCS Lui… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Ethereum, a blockchain, supports its own cryptocurrency named Ether and smart contracts.
Although more than 8M smart contracts have been deployed on Ethereum, little is known …