Security insights, research, and updates from the Dedaub team. Stay informed about the latest developments in smart contract security.
[by the Dedaub team] A major attack on several prominent DeFi protocols over many blockchains was (largely) successfully mitigated last …
Dedaub is heading to Cannes! As a WAGMI sponsor at EthCC[8], we’re bringing end-to-end smart contract security, combining rigorous auditing …
On 28th of May 2025, Cork Protocol suffered an $11M exploit due multiple security weaknesses, culminating in a critical access control …
On May 22, 2025, the Cetus AMM on the Sui Network suffered a devastating hack resulting in over $200 million in losses. This incident …
Dedaub has joined forces with Immunefi to develop an onchain firewall for the Magnus platform. This partnership brings together two leading …
Solana stands out as one of the most popular blockchains, known for its high throughput and scalability that position it as an attractive …
Dedaub is excited to sponsor ETHDenver once again! This year, we will showcase the Dedaub Security Suite’s real-time monitoring …
FREE MONITORING for all! The Dedaub Security Suite continues to evolve with features designed to simplify blockchain transaction monitoring …
Dedaub is proud to sponsor the DeFi Security Summit (DSS) 2024, which will be held from November 7th to 9th in Bangkok. The summit aims to …
With the recent introduction of transient storage in Ethereum, the landscape of state management within the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) …
The Privacy4Web3 Hackathon, supported by Oasis Network, is an excellent opportunity for developers to use privacy-centric technologies …
A few hours ago, the Dedaub team discovered a smart contract vulnerability in a number of uniBTC vault smart contracts in the Bedrock …
Smart contracts are the underpinning of blockchain technology, and they present unique security challenges. To address this, platforms like …
We’re thrilled to announce that Dedaub is now a member of the ZKsync Security Council. We’re grateful for the community’s …
White Hat Hackers in the Crosshair **Update (Mar/11/2025): Legal pardon given to the white-hats by parliamentary vote. ** As a white hat …
Dedaub is proud to sponsor the SPLASH 2024 conference, helping unite top thinkers in software, programming languages, and systems. We …
On July 19th, Rho Markets — a Compound V2 fork on Scroll — was involved in an incident that led to the creation of $7.5mil in bad debt. The …
Dedaub’s Security Audit teams comprise at least two senior security researchers, as well as any support they may need (e.g., cryptography …
Understanding and Mitigating Solidity Security Vulnerabilities Solidity Security Vulnerabilities are critical concerns for developers …
Today, I’d like to share my personal experience as a member of SEAL 911, the emergency hotline that assists Web3 projects in …
Dedaub Security Suite is renowned for its powerful EVM bytecode decompiler, which users have hailed as the best in the industry. Just as a …
Dedaub is now the Security Advisor for Arbitrum DAO’s Procurement Committee (ADPC). The community backed us with 114.9M votes—99.39% …
Pectra’s EIP-3074, and its Impact on Deployed Smart Contracts Introduction Ethereum’s end-user experience (UX) is about to be …
Dedaub is excited to participate in ETHDenver 2024. During the conference, Dedaub will showcase its advanced security technology solutions. …
As a founding collaborator of the Security Alliance (SEAL), Dedaub celebrates SEAL’s public debut, a significant milestone in crypto …
Most Dapp developers have heard of and probably use the excellent Multicall contract to bundle their eth_calls and reduce latency for bulk …
At Dedaub, we have solid expertise in Smart Contract security, which allows us to contribute significantly to protecting the Web3 ecosystem, …
The Arbitrum network experienced significant downtime on December 15 due to problems with its sequencer and feed. The network had been down …
Hello everyone, this is Yannis Bollanos, Security Researcher at Dedaub. A few days ago, we published a tweet about the thestandard.io …
Introduction to Transaction Simulation Solutions Transaction simulation tools improve developer and user experience when operating …
Web3 Monitoring continuously tracks blockchain activities, such as transactions and smart contract interactions, to identify anomalies, …
As most programmers would admit, the most annoying bugs are often the “little” ones. Tiny logic errors caused by a few wrong …
Summary: The root cause of the thirdweb critical vulnerability is that independent libraries implementing ERC2771 & Multicall, such as …
Smart Contract Audit Essentials: Navigating the Web 3 Landscape with Expertise and Security With blockchain platforms, Smart Contract Audits …
Dedaub Security Suite (former Watchdog) is a comprehensive security system designed for Smart Contract analysis and transaction monitoring. …
Platypus Finance Hack: The platform was targeted by a flashloan attack, resulting in an approximate $2 million loss. This sophisticated …
Dedaub was commissioned by the Ethereum Foundation to perform a security audit of the bytecode of a smart contract that was introduced to …
The Ethereum Foundation commissioned our team to examine the potential impact of Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) 6404 and 6466. These …
Your project is at an advanced state of engineering and you have decided to hire an auditor to maximize security and legitimacy. Great …
Dedaub was commissioned by the Ethereum Foundation to perform an impact study of Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) 4758 and 6780 on …
What if I told you that over one-third of recently-deployed Ethereum smart contracts consist mostly of unusable junk? We recently identified …
On July 2nd, 2023 06:47:20 PM UTC Poly Network suffered what was initially reported to be a notional $34b hack (the actual realized amounts …
By the Dedaub team Uniswap Reentrancy | Uniswap Labs recently advertised a boosted $3M bounty program for bug reports over their smart …
You are probably safe, but be aware… Daniel Von Fange pinged me last week: Hey, I just realized that the xSushi reward distribution contract …
This week, with the help of @drdr_zz and @wh01s7 of SecuRing, we tackled a backlog of warnings from the Dedaub Watchdog tool, notifying …
Security researchers actively participating in Tribe DAO’s Discord security channel, raised concerns about a security issue relating to Fuse …
NEVILLE GRECH, University of Malta, Malta and Dedaub Ltd SIFIS LAGOUVARDOS, University of Athens, Greece and Dedaub Ltd ILIAS TSATIRIS, …
Smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain greatly benefit from cutting-edge analysis techniques and pose significant challenges. A primary …
The Dedaub Watchdog is a technology-driven continuous auditing service for smart contracts. What does this even mean? “Technology-driven”? …
By the Dedaub team On Jan. 10 we made a major vulnerability disclosure to the Multichain project (formerly “AnySwap”). Multichain has made a …
By the Dedaub team The Assignment A few weeks ago, we were approached with a request to work on a project unlike any we’ve had before. Cyrus …
We disclosed a critical bug to Harvest Finance. The contracts in scope held a total of $6.4M in Uniswap V3 positions. The attack was found …
We present a static analysis approach that combines concrete values and symbolic expressions. This symbolic value-flow (“symvalic”) analysis …
YANNIS SMARAGDAKIS, University of Athens, Greece NEVILLE GRECH, University of Malta, Malta SIFIS LAGOUVARDOS, University of Athens, Greece …
Dedaub was commissioned by the Ethereum Foundation to investigate the impact of Vitalik Buterin’s Verkle tree gas metering proposal on …
By the Dedaub team Last week we received bug bounties for disclosing smart contract vulnerabilities to Vesper Finance and BT Finance, via …
Three articles on the Primitive Finance vulnerability disclosure and rescue: PrimitiveFi post-mortem analysis Awarded …
Following the previous white-hat hacks (1, 2), on contracts flagged by our analysis tools, today we’ll talk about another interesting …
By the Dedaub team This story describes a cool hack, for over $300K (even nearly $600K, if done at the right time). It is a white-hat hack. …
Saving DeFi Saver with Static Contract Analysis By the Dedaub team In the complex DeFi protocols and decentralized finance landscape, …
Security is vital in blockchain technology. With so many DeFi and other financial transactions running on Web3 platforms, even a tiny glitch …
SIFIS LAGOUVARDOS, University of Athens, Greece NEVILLE GRECH, University of Athens, Greece ILIAS TSATIRIS, University of Athens, Greece …
Abstract Ethereum is a distributed blockchain platform, serving as an ecosystem for smart contracts: full-fledged intercommunicating …
Lexi Brent∗ Int’l Computer Science Institute Berkeley, CA, USA lexi@icsi.berkeley.edu Neville Grech University of Athens Athens, Greece …
Neville Grech University of Athens and University of Malta Greece and Malta me@nevillegrech.com Lexi Brent The University of Sydney …
Mr. Out of gas exception EIP 1884 is set to be implemented into the upcoming Ethereum ‘Istanbul’ hard fork. It: increases the cost of …
The rise of smart contract—autonomous applications running on blockchains—has led to a growing number of threats, necessitating …
Co-written with Neville Grech In a few hours, an attacker will claim the prize for the first Consensys Diligence Ethereum hacking …
Co-written with Neville Grech Trivial Exploits of Bad Randomness In Ethereum, and How To Do On-Chain Randomness (Reasonably) Well Ethereum …
Auditing Smart Contracts Code | Mitigating Security Issues in Blockchain Introduction Have you ever wondered how secure your smart contracts …
